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

~ Edmond De Goncourt

Edmond De Goncourt Atheism Organized Religion Religion

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.

~ Edmond De Goncourt

Edmond De Goncourt Sin Temptation Women

[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

Edmond De Goncourt Life Living

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.

~ Edmond De Goncourt

Edmond De Goncourt Truth Sad Sadness

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

Edmond De Goncourt Love Today Book
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