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 i…

- Gustave Flaubert

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

- Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth. There is only perception.

- Gustave Flaubert

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

- Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

- Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

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

- Gustave Flaubert

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

- Gustave Flaubert

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

- Gustave Flaubert