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Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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Gustave Flaubert

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Poetry

Gustave Flaubert

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

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Gustave Flaubert

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

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