Edmond de Goncourt Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- Edmond de Goncourt (random)
- Books & Videos:
- Edmond de Goncourt Books & Videos
- Type:
- Writer
- Nationality:
- French
- Birth Date / Year:
- May 26, 1822
- Death Date / Year:
- July 16, 1896
- 1
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
- 2
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
- 3
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
- 4
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
- 5
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
- 7
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt | Refcard PDF ↑
