85 Quotes by Remy de Gourmont

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

The woman who loves always smells good.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.