Remy de Gourmont quotes - page 2

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. (Remy de Gourmont)
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time. View quote
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The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous. View quote
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Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand. View quote
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Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all. View quote
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Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions. View quote
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Innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues. View quote
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Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding. View quote
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Women feel and it suffices to steer them satisfactorily through life as well as to solve problems which leave men utterly helpless. It is only through feelings one can get in contact with them. There is but one way of understanding women and that is to love them. View quote
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Sex is an absinthe whose strength only the strong can stand. In both sexes there are two successive crises, the sexual and the sensual. The first comes at a fixed period ... the second generally coincides with the completion of growth. Sometimes, when decline is beginning, a third occurs, which like the first brings with it a condition of sentimentality. View quote
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Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized. (Remy de Gourmont)
Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments. View quote
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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. View quote
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius. View quote
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences no life flowers except on a cemetery. View quote
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Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty to curse life.... View quote
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