All ones inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. – Gustave Flaubert
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. – Gustave Flaubert
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartletts Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Sir Winston Churchill