Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Remy de Gourmont
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
Remy de Gourmont
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Remy de Gourmont
If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
Remy de Gourmont
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
Remy de Gourmont
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Remy de Gourmont
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
Remy de Gourmont
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Remy de Gourmont
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Remy de Gourmont
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Remy de Gourmont
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Remy de Gourmont
The woman who loves always smells good.
Remy de Gourmont
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
Remy de Gourmont
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Remy de Gourmont
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
Remy de Gourmont
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Remy de Gourmont
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Remy de Gourmont
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
Remy de Gourmont
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