Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmontwas 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. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1858
CountryFrance
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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.
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Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
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Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
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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.
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Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
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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.
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The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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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.
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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.
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The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.