Edmond Goncourt Quotes

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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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

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People don't like the true and simple they like fairy tales and humbug.

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a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

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