Quotes by
Remy de Gourmont |
Remy-Marie-Charles de Gourmont, 1858-1915 , French poet
Aristocrat, novelist, poet, playwright, and philosopher who was one of the most-penetrating contemporary critics of the French Symbolist movement. His prolific writings disseminated the Symbolist aesthetic doctrines.He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille.
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Quotations
| • | Without astonishment, there is no love; man and woman would have to be a perpetual surprise to each other. 7 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. 5 |
| • | The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. 5 |
| • | Superstition is a little more human than religion, because it lacks morals. 5 |
| • | To know what everyone knows is to know nothing. Knowledge begins where what the world does not know begins. 4 |
| • | The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, and that’s all. It is thus that we should love. 3 |
| • | Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. |
| • | Man begins by loving sex and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving sex. |
| • | Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. |
| • | Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. |
| • | God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist. |
| • | Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction. |
| • | Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live. |
| • | We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body. |
| • | Innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues. |
| • | Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized. |
| • | Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty – to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free. |
| • | Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy. |
| • | Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. |
| • | The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. |
| • | Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss. |
| • | It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity. |
| • | The only excuse a man has for writing is that he express himself, that he reveal to others the kind of world reflected in the mirror of his soul; his only excuse is that he be original. |
| • | The nude of contemporary art is a hydrotherapy nude. |
| • | The male is an accident; the female would have sufficed. |
| • | Happiness, like wealth, has its parasites. |
