Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

Edmond de Goncourt Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Edmond de Goncourt
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
French
Birth day:
May 26
Birth year:
1822

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    A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt
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    A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Edmond de Goncourt
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    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
  • 4
    Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt
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    If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt
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    Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. Edmond de Goncourt
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    Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. Edmond de Goncourt
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    People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. Edmond de Goncourt
  • 9
    That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. Edmond de Goncourt
  • 10
    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. Edmond de Goncourt
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    The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman. Edmond de Goncourt
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    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. Edmond de Goncourt

 

 

 

 

 

 

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