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.

Edmond de Goncourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 26, 1822 - July 16, 1896

Topics

LoveTodayRomanticBookFeelLost

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

Jo Brand

ChildrenParentsYouAnythingSit

I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Jerry Doyle

BelieveFinancialRetirementPhysical

I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don't do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

Jeremy Jordan

CreativeMeSongSomeoneYouWant

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

Robert Plant

FlowerPowerPeaceYouHarmonyHow

I'd seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.

Michael Connelly

DemonsSeenInnerHeSomeFew

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

Robbie Fowler

FootballMeBrainActingI CanPlay

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Chris Hayes

FatherMotherCommunityTeacherCome

Everything isn't permanent, so don't pretend that it is. Everything's supposed to move and shift.

Chelsea Handler

EverythingPermanentPretendMove

Character is power.

Booker T. Washington

CharacterPower

Prayer is omnipotent: its breath can melt adamantine rocks - its touch can break the stoutest chains.

William Lloyd Garrison

PrayerRocksChainsTouchBreak

Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.

Noam Chomsky

UrbanBeingPopulationPartLives

I always loved soul music. My dad was a very religious guy, and we would listen to a lot of gospel and soul music. My college girlfriend introduced me to musicals. She listened to them, so that was the first time I heard 'Dream Girls.'

Norbert Leo Butz

MusicTimeSoulCollegeMeLoved

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