"Un livre n'est jamais un chef-d'œuvre, il le devient. Le génie est le talent d'un homme mort."
— Goncourt brothers

January 1, 1970

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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.