The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in li... - Gustave Flaubert

"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."

"We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means."

"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."

"God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world"

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."