What did Edmond de Goncourt mean by: History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. - Edmond de Goncourt Writer · France Copy
+ Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmond de Goncourt, History, Perspective, Storytelling, 0 - Edmond de Goncourt Writer · France
+ Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. Feraz Zeid, July 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Edmond de Goncourt, Betray, Mind, 0 - Edmond de Goncourt Writer · France
+ A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmond de Goncourt, Ambitious, Creativity, Poetry, 0 - Edmond de Goncourt Writer · France
+ Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmond de Goncourt, Observation, Sickness, 0 - Edmond de Goncourt Writer · France
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. Explain - Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. - Lewis Thomas Physician · USA
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. - George A. Moore Writer · Ireland
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica