Jules De Goncourt Quotes

#1. Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

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#2. The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

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#3. 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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#4. Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.

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#5. When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

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#6. History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

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#7. Time cures one of everything-even of living.

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#8. There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

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#9. 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 men.

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#10. Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

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