People live in hope. When old hopes are realized or extinguished, the flames of new hopes burn with it. If a person just lives one day at a time, there is no hope, and his life has actually stopped. —— Maupassant

The only way to endure life is to indulge in literature, like endless indulgence. ——Flaubert

Truth can only be approached by permanent service or even powerful sacrifice. ——Turgenev

If you want to love your own value, you have to create value for the world. ——Goethe

A society will be strong only when it makes the truth known to the public. ——Zola