I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.
Gustave FlaubertHe loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.
Gustave FlaubertThe deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Gustave FlaubertOne must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
Gustave Flaubert