Edmond and Jules De Goncourt Quotes

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

- Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

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