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French
-
Writer
May 26
, 1822 -
July 16
, 1896
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Edmond de Goncourt
Past
Story
Present
Tell
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
Love
Today
Romantic
Feel
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Edmond de Goncourt
God
Religion
Insult
Atheism
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
World
Painting
Museum
Opinions
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
Life
World
Die
Back
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt
Talent
Dead
Genius
Person
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
Edmond de Goncourt
Man
Ladder
Violin
Poet
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
Edmond de Goncourt
Mind
Laughter
Sound
Laughing
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond de Goncourt
Simple
People
True
Like
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
Edmond de Goncourt
Face
Act
Despair
Infinity
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
Sad
Men
Truth
Age
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
Edmond de Goncourt
Truth
Picture
Bad
Moral
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
Nation
True
English
Who
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Edmond de Goncourt
Man
Mind
His
Betrayed
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
Edmond de Goncourt
World
Picture
Museum
Nonsense
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