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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disintere...
By Rémy De Gourmont
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
By Remy De Gourmont
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.
By 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.
By Remy De Gourmont
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
By Remy De Gourmont
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
By Remy De Gourmont