More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy."
"Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."
"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."