More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."