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Remy de Gourmont Quotes

Remy de Gourmont quotes

French Novelist April 4, 1858 – September 27, 1915

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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. Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "The woman who loves always smells good."
The woman who loves always smells good. Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Art is the accomplice of love."
Art is the accomplice of love. 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
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Life is a series of sensations connected to different states..."
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. Remy de Gourmont
Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise. Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the..."
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time. Remy de Gourmont
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins? 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
She lit the candelabras which stood on the mantelpiece. Placed at the head of the bead, on a side-table, they looked like two burning bushes, their flames solemn and inextinguishable. But beneath that avalanche of light the dead man became hideous: the pale head displayed a whiteness more livid than the bedsheet, ghastly against the cambric of the pillow; pits of shadow were hollowed out under the eyes and his nose was villainously elongated, and even the mouth seemed wicked? his mouth,... Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten..."
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the..."
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live."
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live. Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont quote: "Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called."
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. Remy de Gourmont

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