More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"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."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."