[He] went on to say that during all those years he....

“ [He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl. ”

Edmond de Goncourt

From : Pages from the Goncourt Journals