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


— 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


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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.


— Edmond de Goncourt


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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.


— 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


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Edmond de Goncourt (May 26 1822 – July 16 1896) born Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt was a French writer literary critic art critic book publiEdmond de Goncourtr and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.

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