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Remy de Gourmont [1858-1915] French
Rank: 102
Novelist, Poet


Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille.

Intelligence, Relationship, Women



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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. Relationship, Women
101
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Intelligence
102
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
103
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.
104
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.
105
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.
106
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.
107
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
108
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
109
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.
110
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
111
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. Intelligence
112
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
113
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
114
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
115
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
116
The woman who loves always smells good.
117
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
118
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
119
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.
120

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