A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.
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:…
- 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
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 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.
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…
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.
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.
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 …
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. - Jules De Goncourt
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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