"The reflection is more interesting than the thing itself."

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.

"Words are the only things that last forever; everything else perishes."

知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。