"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family." ― Gustave Flaubert Topic(s): Family More From Gustave Flaubert "Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature." "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments." "A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies." More In Family "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."― George Orwell "The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him."― H. Rap Brown "I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had."― Robin Gibb