"A sign of the times: there are no……" — 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 provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing."
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Jules de Goncourt
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13 Quotes by Jules de Goncourt
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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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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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A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same…
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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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