Jules Goncourt
Jules Goncourt
Jules de Goncourt, born Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil-Neuilly-Passy of a stroke brought on by syphilis...
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.