A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. Edmond de Goncourt Read Quote
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt Read Quote
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt Read Quote
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Edmond de Goncourt Read Quote
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt Read Quote
Laughter is the mind’s intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. Edmond de Goncourt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum. Edmond de Goncourt Read Quote
