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Type: Writer Quotes Category: French Writer Quotes Date of Birth: May 26, 1822 Date of Death: July 16, 1896 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Edmond de Goncourt Related Authors: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Voltaire Joseph Joubert Simone de Beauvoir Nicolas de Chamfort Stendhal Andre Maurois Madame de Stael |
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Edmond de Goncourt As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. Edmond De Goncourt Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. Edmond de Goncourt Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. Edmond De Goncourt Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Edmond de Goncourt Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. Edmond de Goncourt Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. Edmond De Goncourt People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. Edmond de Goncourt That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. Edmond De Goncourt The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. Edmond De Goncourt The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. Edmond De Goncourt The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. Edmond De Goncourt Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt |
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