Quotes by Edmond de Goncourt

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

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"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."

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"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."

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