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Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.
— Jules 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
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.
— Edmond De Goncourt
You have the capacity to do all the work you can.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
— Edmond De Goncourt
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
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
— 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
That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
— Edmond De Goncourt
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Humans are made from nuclear ash of dead stars
— Jenny Downham
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
— Jules De Goncourt
Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.
— Timothy Brook
He who angers you conquers you.
— Elizabeth Kenny
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Time cures one of everything-even of living.
— Jules De Goncourt
Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses?
— William Lindsay Gresham
History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
— Jules De Goncourt
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Only the insane take themselves seriously.
— Max Beerbohm
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
— Jules De Goncourt
Oh, it was easy to be a soldier, it was much less easy to become a man again.
— Simone De Beauvoir
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
— Jules De Goncourt
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
Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.
— Edmond De Goncourt
We need to start preparing ourselves for the changes we are anticipating in our society
— Sunday Adelaja
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.
— Edmond De Goncourt
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
— Edmond De Goncourt
Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
— Dawn Fraser