There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

- Edmond De Goncourt

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have b…

- Edmond De Goncourt

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

- Edmond De Goncourt

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

- Edmond De Goncourt

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

- Edmond De Goncourt

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

- Edmond De Goncourt

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 incom…

- Edmond De Goncourt

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

- Edmond De Goncourt

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

- Edmond De Goncourt