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1. "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

2. "[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

3. "Baudelaire had supper at the table next to ours. He was without a cravat, his shirt open at the neck and his head shaved, just as if he were to be guillotined. A single affectation: his little hands washed and cared for, the nails kept scrupulously clean. The face of a maniac, a voice that cuts like a knife, and a precise elocution that tries to copy Saint-Just and succeeds." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

4. "Then Montesquiou was mentioned, and somebody described his first love-affair, a Baudelairean love-affair with a female ventriloquist who, while Montesquiou was straining to achieve his climax, would imitate the drunken voice of a pimp, threatening the aristocratic client." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

5. "If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

6. "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

7. "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

8. "Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

9. "A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

10. "As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

11. "Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

12. "Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

13. "Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

14. "That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum." ~ Edmond De Goncourt

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The interior life is often stupid. Its egoism blinds it and deafens it; its imagination spins out ignorant tales, fascinated. It fancies that the western wind blows on the Self, and leaves fall at the feet of the Self for a reason, and people are watching. A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time."
Author: Annie Dillard

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