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True Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
- Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
- The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
- I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound…
- She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly…
- All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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