As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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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
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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