Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

To be simple is no small matter.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.