Genius is the talent of a man who is dead.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.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
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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
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