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

"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."

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."

"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."

"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."

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."