She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females.
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
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
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
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. - Edmond De Goncourt
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. - Edmond De Goncourt
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. - Edmond De Goncourt
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
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
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…
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. - Edmond De Goncourt
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. - Edmond De Goncourt
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. - Edmond De Goncourt
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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