Pages from the Goncourt Journals
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Source: Pages from the Goncourt Journals
“If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.”
“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”
“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”
“Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.”
“History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.”
“Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.”
“Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.”
“Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.”
“Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.”
Source: The Goncourt journals, 1851-1870
“People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.”