A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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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
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
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
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
Edmond de Goncourt
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond de Goncourt
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