A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating … - Jules De Goncourt
The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating …
- Jules De Goncourt
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value:… - Jules De Goncourt
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value:…
A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the p… - Jules De Goncourt
A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the p…
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion. - Jules De Goncourt
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter. - Jules De Goncourt
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. - Jules De Goncourt
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
Time cures one of everything-even of living. - Jules De Goncourt
Time cures one of everything-even of living.
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone … - Jules De Goncourt
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone …
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientifi… - Jules De Goncourt
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientifi…
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