Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.Edmond de Goncourt
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Edmond de Goncourt
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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.
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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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