Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
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.
- Jules De Goncourt
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.
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 …
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:…
Time cures one of everything-even of living. - Jules De Goncourt
Time cures one of everything-even of living.
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…
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…
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 …
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.
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