When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a... - Gustave Flaubert
"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"
More quotes by 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."
"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."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."