Talk:Edmond de Goncourt

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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

“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.” ― Edmond de Goncourt

“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.” ― Edmond De Goncourt

“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

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.” ― Edmond de Goncourt

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.” ― Edmond De Goncourt

“History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.” ― Edmond Louis Goncourt

Biohistorian15 (talk) 18:53, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]