Ifs Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

3 Ifs quotes by Remy de Gourmont

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Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be…

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Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas…

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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a…

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“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men following each other uncomprehendingly, almost undiscerningly, so different are their souls, & always summed up, to the moment of their decline, by the child, the future, the “nebula”, whose birth, finally confirmed, brings death. Under its morning clearness,…

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“The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.”

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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…

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