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1822–1896 France
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (26 May 182216 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
..the Impressionists are only.. ..makers of spots [of paint], and, what is more, spots stolen from the Japanese.
She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.
We asked ourselves whether, in these days of equality in which we live, there are classes unworthy the notice of the author and the reader, misfortunes too lowly, dramas too foul-mouthed, catastrophes too commonplace in the terror they inspire.
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