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~ Gustave Flaubert Quotes ~
« on: August 26, 2014, 10:54:29 AM »
Gustave Flaubert Quotes


A French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists.
Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.

Here are some famous quotes by Gustave Flaubert.




Of all lies art is the least untrue.

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Re: ~ Gustave Flaubert Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 10:59:59 AM »
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2014, 11:04:24 AM »
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2014, 11:07:34 AM »
Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

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« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2014, 11:10:25 AM »
Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2014, 11:11:16 AM »
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.