"One mustn’t ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
― Gustave Flaubert
Topic(s):
Happiness
― Gustave Flaubert
More From Gustave Flaubert
- "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
- "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."
- "A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies."
More In Happiness
- "The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved."― Lafcadio Hearn
- "Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."― Stendhal