5 Gustave Flaubert Quotes on Truth

Gustave Flaubert quotes on truth

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

80. 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.

92. Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

97. Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

100. There is no truth. There is only perception.