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 (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.