Gustave Flaubert Quote

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"Todo lo que uno inventa es verdad puedes estar perfectamente seguro de eso. La poesía es tan precisa como la geometría."

Translations

“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy”

Gustave Flaubert

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