Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. (14 August 1853) - Gustave Flaubert

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. (14 August 1853)

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About Gustave Flaubert

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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Alternative Names: Flaubert

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