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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

~Edmond De Goncourt

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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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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.

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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

~Edmond De Goncourt

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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

~Edmond De Goncourt

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: May 26th, 1822

Died: July 16th, 1896

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