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Edmond de Goncourt

French Writer

Born: May 26, 1822

Died: Jul 16, 1896

Anything Mind More Picture Truth World

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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. Edmond de Goncourt

Love Today Book First Half Lost Incomplete Other Ourselves Has-Been Must Absence Volumes Parted Feel Like Understand Been Exists Begin Lack Romantic Which Each Two Imagine

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Edmond de Goncourt

Past Tell Historians Story Novelists Present

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. Edmond de Goncourt

Face Despair Perhaps Infinity Act

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. Edmond de Goncourt

Nation Crooked True Individuals French Contrary English Who Honest

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. Edmond de Goncourt

Man Mind Betrayed His Organs Served

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