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Letter "E" » Edmond de Goncourt Quotes
«If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.»
«People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
«A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.»
«Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.»
«Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.»
«Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
«a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
«A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
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«Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
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