Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt
People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
Edmond de Goncourt
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
Edmond de Goncourt
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.