Quotes by : Edmond de Goncourt

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth....

[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had....

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack....

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving....

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.