"A human being sheds its leaves like a……" — 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 which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort."
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Jules de Goncourt
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13 Quotes by Jules de Goncourt
Jules de Goncourt has 13 quotes on this site.
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Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody…
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That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was…
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After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of…
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Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
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The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by…
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There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
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History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.
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Time cures one of everything-even of living.
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When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
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