We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate... - Gustave Flaubert

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"

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

"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."

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