"Il n'y a que deux grands courants dans l'histoire de l'humanité: la bassesse qui fait les conservateurs et l'envie qui fait les révolutionnaires."
— Goncourt brothers

January 1, 1970

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July 12, 1867; translation from Lewis Galantière (ed. and trans.) The Goncourt Journals: 1851-1870 (London: Cassell, 1937) p. 246.