Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a… — Edmond De Goncourt Copy Share Image
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
![“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl.” quote by Edmond De Goncourt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3e1/edmond-de-goncourt-19675_life_he-went-on-to-say-that-during-all-those_436609.jpg)
