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
Love, Art, Aesthetic, Accomplice
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
Reason, Pleasure, Prejudices, Verifiable
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
- Remy de Gourmont
Truth, Truth Is, Find, Terrible Thing
Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
- Remy de Gourmont
Relationship, Remember, Last, First Kiss
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
Been, Capital, Whatsoever, Harmful
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
Say, Tell, The Secret Of, Understood
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
- Remy de Gourmont
Work, Same, Same Time, Burdens
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
- Remy de Gourmont
Man, Stupidity, Inventor
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
- Remy de Gourmont
Most, Perhaps, Chastity, Peculiar
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
- Remy de Gourmont
Emotions, Himself, Needs, Grant
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
- Remy de Gourmont
Learn, More, Sensibility, Surrendering
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
Men, Nothing, Necessary, Indifferent
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
- Remy de Gourmont
Stupidity, Made, His, Invented
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
- Remy de Gourmont
Art, Desire, Everything, Stimulates
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
Practice, Discover, Inquire, Good Time
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
- Remy de Gourmont
Truth, Fact, Form, Elements
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
- Remy de Gourmont
Connected, Consciousness, Sensations
The woman who loves always smells good.
- Remy de Gourmont
Woman, Always, Loves, Smells
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