Edmond de Goncourt
Biography
Quotes
- 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.
- If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
- 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.
