Gustave Flaubert

"The beautiful truth is that nobody is smarter than the masters."

"An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot with a gun."

"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."

"Every person has their own way of seeing things."

"I never am really satisfied with any explanation of this life."

"The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

"Money is the sinews of war."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to."

"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."

"The difficulty is to choose between despair and betrayal."

"One must always hope when one is in despair."

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

"You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies."

"The practice of writing is one of the best instruments for thinking clearly."

"The more you read, the more you imagine."

"Life is a series of collisions with the future."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

"Stupidity and wisdom begin with the same letter."

"I am sick of quoting. Let me read."

"Freedom exists only in the land of dreams."

"Art is long and life is short."

"The world is made up of dreamers and non-dreamers."

"Kindness can transform the most hardened heart."

"In a world of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."

"The source of all sorrow is attachment."

"Life is not a tragedy or a comedy but a farce."

"The only certainty is change."

"One doesn't know how much one hates one's own country till one leaves it."

"The sea is everything. The sea covers seventy percent of the globe."