More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."