To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. -Gustave Flaubert Happiness
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. -Gustave Flaubert Future
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -Gustave Flaubert Work
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. -Gustave Flaubert Happiness
Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. -Gustave Flaubert Education
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. -Gustave Flaubert Art
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. -Gustave Flaubert Women
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. -Gustave Flaubert Freedom
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. -Gustave Flaubert Music
I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings. -Gustave Flaubert Inspirational
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. -Gustave Flaubert Poetry
