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Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
— Remy De Gourmont
Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.
— Remy De Gourmont
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
— Remy De Gourmont
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
— Remy De Gourmont
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
— Remy De Gourmont
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
— Remy De Gourmont
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
— Remy De Gourmont
Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.
— 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
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
Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
— Remy De Gourmont
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
— Remy De Gourmont
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
— Remy De Gourmont
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
— Remy De Gourmont
Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.
— Remy De Gourmont
Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.
— Remy De Gourmont
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
— Remy De Gourmont
To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.
— Remy De Gourmont
The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.
— Remy De Gourmont
Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
— Remy De Gourmont
Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.
— Remy De Gourmont
Art is the accomplice of love.
— Remy De Gourmont
The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
— Remy De Gourmont
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
— Remy De Gourmont
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
— Remy De Gourmont
Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.
— Remy De Gourmont
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
— Remy De Gourmont
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
— Remy De Gourmont
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
— Remy De Gourmont
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
— Remy De Gourmont
The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.
— Remy De Gourmont
How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.
— Remy De Gourmont
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
— Remy De Gourmont
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
— Remy De Gourmont
It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.
— Remy De Gourmont
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
— Remy De Gourmont
God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.
— Remy De Gourmont
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
— Remy De Gourmont
The woman who loves always smells good.
— Remy De Gourmont
Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.
— Remy De Gourmont
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
— Remy De Gourmont
An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
— Remy De Gourmont
