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

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

"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."

"There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me"

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."