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Gustave Flaubert

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

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Flaubert suggests that the creations of the imagination hold their own kind of truth, just as real and reliable as facts. He compares poetry to geometry to emphasize that poetic expression follows its own exact rules and logic, making it a precise art form despite being invented.

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