Read in order to live. Auteur: Gustave Flaubert Copy Quote More from Gustave Flaubert “Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?” “I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have th…” “But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that h…” “She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--…”