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.

Quote by Edmond De Goncourt

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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to...

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to...

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a...

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a...

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

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

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil...

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil...

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the...

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the...

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

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

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

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in...

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in...

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are...

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are...

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

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

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

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

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs...

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs...

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of...

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of...

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

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

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

May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been...

May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been...

May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been...

May you - Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been...

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself;...

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself;...

I wrote the word debauchery, but when I re-read it, I thought I had written...

I wrote the word debauchery, but when I re-read it, I thought I had written...