Gustave Flaubert Quote

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"La seule manière de tolérer l'existence est de se perdre dans la littérature comme dans une orgie perpétuelle"

Translations

“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed”

Gustave Flaubert

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“The better a work is the more it attracts criticism”

“Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry”

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