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> [Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/princes-enjoy-themselves-like-children-in-the-company-of-ordinary/)

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

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## More by 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/there-are-only-two-great-currents-in-the-history-of-mankind-the/)

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> [Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/princes-enjoy-themselves-like-children-in-the-company-of-ordinary/)

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

> [ “\[He\] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/he-went-on-to-say-that-during-all-those-years-he-had-done-nothing-at/)

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> [A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/a-painting-in-a-museum-hears-more-ridiculous-opinions-than-anything/)

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> [The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/the-past-is-of-no-importance-the-present-is-of-no-importance-it-is-2/)

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> [One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/one-of-the-proud-joys-of-the-man-of-letters-if-that-man-of-letters-is/)

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> [Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/man-is-a-mind-betrayed-not-served-by-his-organs/)

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> [Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/genius-is-the-talent-of-a-person-who-is-dead/)

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> [Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/historians-tell-the-story-of-the-past-novelists-the-story-of-the/)

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> [She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/she-is-unable-to-dream-think-or-love-in-a-woman-poetry-never-comes/)

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> [Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/any-man-who-does-not-see-everything-in-terms-of-self-that-is-to-say/)

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> [I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/i-have-always-derived-indescribable-pleasure-from-leading-a-decent/)

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> [Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/laughter-is-the-mind-s-intonation-there-are-ways-of-laughing-which/)

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> [There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/there-have-been-many-definitions-of-beauty-in-art-what-is-it-beauty/)

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> [Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmond-de-goncourt/sickness-sensitizes-man-for-observation-like-a-photographic-plate/)

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