One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art i… - Gustave Flaubert

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One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form. (12 August 1846)

Gustave Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert (December 12 1821 – May 8 1880) was an influential French writer who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism of his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.

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