If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion.
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The facts nothing matters but the facts worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.Jules Goncourt
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.
Jules Goncourt
Never speak of yourself to others make them talk about themselves instead therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.
Jules Goncourt
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
Jules Goncourt
There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
Jules Goncourt
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