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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

Topics: Absence Been Begin Book Each Exists Feel First Half Imagine Incomplete Lack Like Lost Love Must Other Ourselves Parted Today Two Understand Volumes Which

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Anything Anything Else Else Hears More Museum Opinions Painting Ridiculous Than World

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

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Atheism God Him Insult Less Must Religion Seem Than

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

~Edmond De Goncourt

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

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Fairy Fairy Tales Like People Simple Tales True

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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

~Edmond De Goncourt

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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

~Edmond De Goncourt

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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.

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Back Barbarism Bring Civilization Die Every Five Four Hundred Hundred Years Life Needed Otherwise World Would Years

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

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Historians Novelists Past Present Story Tell

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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Act Despair Face Infinity Perhaps

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: May 26th, 1822

Died: July 16th, 1896

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