Un livre n'est jamais un chef-d'?uvre, il le devient. Le génie est le talent d'un homme mort.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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July 23, 1864; translation from Robert Baldick (ed. and trans.) Pages from the Goncourt Journal (London: Oxford University Press, 1962) p. 100.Goncourt brothers
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