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Edmond de Goncourt Quotes

«If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt | About: Atheism, God, Religion | Keywords: atheism, insult, seem
«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.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt | Keywords: Anything Else, hears, museum, painting, ridiculous
«Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt | About: Genius, Talent | Keywords: dead person
«Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt | Keywords: barbarism, five hundred
«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 | Keywords: violin
«Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.»
Author: Edmond de Goncourt
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