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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.
Jules de Goncourt
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Jules de Goncourt
Age: 39 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 19
Died: 1870
Died: June 20
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Jules Huot De Goncourt
Jules Huot de Goncourt
Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt
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