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Edmond de Goncourt

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

Truth, Sad, Sadness

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Edmond de Goncourt

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

sin, temptation, women

Edmond de Goncourt

[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

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

atheism, organized-religion, religion

Edmond de Goncourt

[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

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

atheism, organized-religion, religion