More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"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."
"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."
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."