“Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.” IfsLoveLifeFeelsFirstsHas BeensTwoBookTodayLostHalfImagineSadnessSadAbsenceVolumeMissing SomeoneIncompleteOther HalfFeeling LonelyLack Of LoveIncompletenessAbsence Love Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds? There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.” PersonsHas BeensArtEyeInterestingBeautyLordWindPrejudiceMadSlaveDefinitionsVulgarByronDefinition Of Beauty Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.” MenShouldFirstsHas BeensMatterFactsPastArtistWealthDealsOughtWorshipImportanceNothing Matters Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.” Has BeensNovelCould Have Been Author:Edmond de Goncourt
“There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.” Has BeensArtEyeBeautyDefinitionsDefinition Of Beauty Author:Edmond de Goncourt
