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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/there-are-moments-when-faced-with-our-lack-of-success-i-wonder/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

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## More by Jules de Goncourt

> [Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/only-a-woman-of-the-world-is-a-woman-the-rest-are-females/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/the-real-connoisseurs-in-art-are-those-who-make-people-accept-as/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/a-human-being-sheds-its-leaves-like-a-tree-sickness-prunes-it-down/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [ A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. \[Noël\] France was the last bookseller who… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/a-sign-of-the-times-there-are-no-longer-any-chairs-in-the-bookshops/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/never-speak-of-yourself-to-others-make-them-talk-about-themselves/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/when-incredulity-becomes-a-faith-it-is-less-rational-than-a-religion/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/history-is-a-novel-which-did-take-place-a-novel-is-history-that-could/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/there-are-two-infinities-in-this-world-god-up-above-and-down-below/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [Time cures one of everything-even of living.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/time-cures-one-of-everything-even-of-living/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/there-are-moments-when-faced-with-our-lack-of-success-i-wonder/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/after-reading-edgar-allan-poe-something-the-critics-have-not-noticed/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

> [Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-de-goncourt/antiquity-was-perhaps-created-to-provide-professors-with-their-bread/)

[Jules de Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-de-goncourt/)

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