6 quotes by Edmond de Goncourt

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I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

War

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

Body

3.6 · 29 votes · 159 reads

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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.

Facts

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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.

Boredom

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There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Beauty

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Feelings
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: incomp
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