Gustave Flaubert

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

- Gustave Flaubert

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

- Gustave Flaubert

"A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies"

- Gustave Flaubert

"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."

- Gustave Flaubert

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

- Gustave Flaubert

"And he beholds the Moon like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

- Gustave Flaubert

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Read in order to live."

- Gustave Flaubert