There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry w... - Gustave Flaubert

"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."

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."