Remy de Gourmont quotes

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last. (Remy de Gourmont)
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Remy de Gourmont
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Remy de Gourmont
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
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
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
Remy de Gourmont
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
Remy de Gourmont
Art is the accomplice of love.
Remy de Gourmont
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
To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.
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)
All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.
Remy de Gourmont
Literary style is the product of the toal phyisology.
Remy de Gourmont
We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body.
Remy de Gourmont
Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.
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
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
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.
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)
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Remy de Gourmont
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Remy de Gourmont
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
Remy de Gourmont
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
Remy de Gourmont