French novelist.
"He was a proponent of Realism and "art for art's sake"; he was prosecuted and acquitted for "Madame Bovary," 1857."
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. . . I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.
You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.
To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.