Remy De Gourmont Quotes

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

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.

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.

Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

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.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.

Art is the accomplice of love.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

The woman who loves always smells good.

Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.