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

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

"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."

"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."

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