Remy de Gourmont - Life Quotes

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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 live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

Remy de Gourmont
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

Remy de Gourmont
It happens in life, as in grammar, that the exceptions outnumber the rules.

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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 dictionary.

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Women feel and it suffices to steer them satisfactorily through life as well as to solve problems which leave men utterly helpless. It is only through feelings one can get in contact with them. There is but one way of understanding women and that is to love them.

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The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.

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

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Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.

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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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