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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.


Gustave Flaubert

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Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
JULIAN BARNES Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true,...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
FRANZ KAFKA In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that ...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
'DOC' EDGERTON In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Ale...
JULIAN BARNES It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europ...
LAFCADIO HEARN This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE You mean old books?"

"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
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PHILIP K. DICK In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL All living creatures are hard wired to belong. I find solace in the belonging I seek as their is no ...
THEE AMAZING GRACE If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
ANUJ SOMANY The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredi...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for re...
ENOCK MAREGESI I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON As far as supplements are concerned, the players need to be sure that the ones they're taking are re...
JEFF FISHER The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros an...
NAVEEN JAIN Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
CHARLES KENNEDY Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely t...
ARTHUR CAYLEY The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, fa...
WALTER LIPPMANN In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
LARRY SUMMERS You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The livi...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE When loved ones die, people always say, “Don’t be sad. I’m sure they would have wanted you to ...
ESTHER EARL Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) As with all of our launches, it's always about making sure product is finished and as good as it can...
GEORGE HARRISON You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA . . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
TAYLOR CALDWELL I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff...
EDWARD ABBEY It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it ap...
OTTO WALLACH Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE Poetry is as vital as ever. The teaching of poetry reading, however, is sluggish and, often, slovenl...
PAUL MULDOON Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of tr...
ALDOUS HUXLEY As one door opens, you can be sure that the thieves are going out the other one.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Nobody can monopolize knowledge and brilliant ideas; as you see, marvelous inventions and breakthrou...
JECON B. NADELA Projective geometry is all geometry.
ARTHUR CAYLEY Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science ...
HENRY A. WALLACE There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear
obvious. Whatever appears ...
AMISH TRIPATHI Hindsight is an exact science.
GUY BELLAMY Hindsight is an exact science
GUY BELLAMY As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's gam...
T. S. ELIOT And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.
DEMETRI MARTIN The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at...
ALBERT EINSTEIN My lowest days as a Christian and There Were Low Ones--Seven Months Worth Of Them In Prison, To Be E...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional m...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
ADAM JONES And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
AARON MCGRUDER Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
ADAM COHEN All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions.
KALYAN C. KANKANALA The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchston...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I don't have a problem with people saying how can you really tell? It's not an exact science and I w...
BOBBY BURTON As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just ...
RACHEL TRUE We also plan to take a look at the configuration of all three of the Midway checkpoints and make som...
WENDY ABRAMS Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you ...
SHAD HELMSTETTER There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ Politics is not an exact science.
OTTO VON BISMARCK While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in t...
RON EGLASH As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strong...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON In a typical situation, we'd like all of the background information on their cases. As I'm sure you ...
KATIE FORD It is not the amount of friends you can make but the ones who can keep you as a friend
JESSICA PONCE DE LEON In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
KANYE WEST Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But am...
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like s...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ..She still was not happy, she never had been. What caused this inadequacy in her life? Why did ever...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ... sentimentele slăbesc cînd le schimbi locul.../ Frédéric s’était attendu à des spa...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Print: to see one's name in print! - Some people commit a crime for no other reason
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
FLAUBERT Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
FLAUBERT Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
GUSTAV FLAUBERT Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, t...
GUSTAVE MEYRINK I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
GUSTAVE MOREAU I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense ...
GUSTAVE COURBET No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b...
GUSTAVE MOREAU The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...
GUSTAVE COURBET Fine art is knowledge made visible.
GUSTAVE COURBET Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and exist...
GUSTAVE COURBET I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
GUSTAVE COURBET