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Edmond de Goncourt [1822-1896] French

Rank: 102
Writer

Edmond de Goncourt, born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.

Age, Love, Religion, Romantic, Sad, Truth

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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.	Love, Romantic	101
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.		102
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.	Religion	103
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.	Age, Sad, Truth	104
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.		105
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.		106
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.		107
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.		108
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.		109
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.		110
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.		111
The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.		112
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.		113
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.		114
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.		115

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