Gustave Flaubert

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. ”

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

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. ”

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. ”

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. ”

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. ”

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others. ”

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. ”

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form. ”

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