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."
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
"Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."