Edmond de Goncourt Quotes


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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Goncourt, Edmond de. Pages from the Goncourt Journal. Translated by Robert Baldick, Oxford University Press, 1962.

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Edmond de Goncourt
Edmond de Goncourt
  • Born: May 26, 1822
  • Died: July 16, 1896
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt.