85 Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.

The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant who passed that way. The branches are broken at a height that other men cannot reach.

Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.

The roses of old time have filled the well. Is it there that you have been hiding, my sweet love?

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

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

To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.

Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.