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Remy de Gourmont has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be…
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For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the…
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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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 disinterested,…
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It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who…
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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…
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The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly…
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical…
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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
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Art is the accomplice of love.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a…
— Edward Abbey
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
— John Herschel
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An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe…
— Albert Einstein
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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the…
— Honore de Balzac
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A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours…
— Holly Black
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As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from…
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