Remy de Gourmont
Novelist
1858-04-04
Quotes by Remy de Gourmont
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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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.
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It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with murderers than those who are not.
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It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.
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Women are the simple, and poets the superior artisans of language ... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
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Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.
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The woman one loves always smells good.
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Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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