Best Quotes by Edmond de Goncourt (Top 10)
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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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.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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More Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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