One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a more profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.


Journals, February 8, 1868

Goncourt brothers Quotes

One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will...

One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will...

One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will...

One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will...