Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Truth
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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No matter: she wasn't happy, and never had been. Why was life so unsatisfactory? Why did everything she leaned on crumble instantly to dust? . . . Besides, nothing was worth looking for: everything was a lie! Every smile concealed a yawn of boredom; every joy, a curse; every pleasure, its own surfeit; and the sweetest kisses left on one's lips but a vain longing for a fuller delight.
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
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There is no truth. There is only perception.