If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
From Remy de Gourmont
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
The woman who loves always smells good.
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
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.
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