Germinie Lacerteux Quotes

“She was, so to speak, an impersonal creature, because of her great heart; a woman who did not belong to herself: God seemed to have made her only to give her to others.”
― Edmond de Goncourt, Germinie Lacerteux

“We asked ourselves whether, in these days of equality in which we live, there are classes unworthy the notice of the author and the reader, misfortunes too lowly, dramas too foul-mouthed, catastrophes too commonplace in the terror they inspire.”
― Edmond de Goncourt, Germinie Lacerteux