“ We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Remy de Gourmont
“ It is fairly obvious that those who are in favour of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not. Remy de Gourmont
“ 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
“ 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
“ Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss. Remy de Gourmont
“ To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men except by purely animal contacts: nevertheless, among souls of this degree, t… Remy de Gourmont
“ Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but there are joys: and these joys may not be folly felt unless they are detached from neut… Remy de Gourmont
“ Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and mobile… Remy de Gourmont
“ How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over. Remy de Gourmont
“ He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the ma… 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… Remy de Gourmont
“ The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love. Remy de Gourmont
“ It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put bac… Remy de Gourmont
“ As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they… Remy de Gourmont
