“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Each one, then, should love his life, even though it be not very attractive, for it is the only life. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men following each… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
“The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
“It is a communion at once mystic & real, in the guise of metal. Money which is liberty, is also fecundation. It is the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.” — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share
