Gustave Flaubert Quotes
There is no truth. There is only perception.
Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1857-1880. Edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller, Harvard University Press, 1982.
See Otis Singletary {585931} for a different expression of the same idea and John Stuart Mill {607508} for the earlier expression. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), for his Correspondence, and for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated short story writer {Guy de Maupassant} was a protégé of Flaubert.
