Author: Edmond de Goncourt

Quotes

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

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

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

- Edmond de Goncourt

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

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

- 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.

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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