French writer of novels and short stories (1821-1880)

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Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.
Perfection is the enemy of the good.
That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

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