One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
Gustave FlaubertWhat I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.
Gustave FlaubertOne must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
Gustave Flaubert