Remy de Gourmont, 1858 - 1915
Born: 4 April 1858, Bazoches-au-Houlme, Orne, France
Died: 27 September 1915, Paris, France
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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. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live — science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Art is the accomplice of love. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Philosophic Nights in Paris - Civilized man's brain is a museum of contradictory truths. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - The Culture of Ideas (1900) - Conformism, imitativeness, submission to rules and to teachings is the writer's capital crime. The work of a writer must be not only the reflection, but the larger reflection of his personality. The only excuse that a man has for his writing is to write about himself, to reveal to others the sort of world that is mirrored in his own glass; his only excuse is to be original; he must speak of things not yet spoken of in a form not yet formulated. He must create his own aesthetics — and we must admit as many aesthetics as there are original spirits and judge them for what they are, not for what they aren't. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - introduction to the first Book of Masks (1896-98) - Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be ... but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. permalink
Remy de Gourmont - The Angels of Perversity (1920) - 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. permalink
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. permalink
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. permalink
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