Tag: Gustave Flaubert
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“Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.”
”There is no truth. There is only perception.“
“Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.”
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a …”
“You don’t make art out of good intentions.”
author, Finnish, novelist, playwright, writer
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