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Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.
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Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.
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Literary style is the product of the toal phyisology.
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We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body.
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Civilized man's brain is a museum of contradictory truths.
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Art…is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.
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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
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Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.
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Innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues.
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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.
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The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
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But morality triumphs. And when morality triumphs, very bad things happen.
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It happens in life, as in grammar, that the exceptions outnumber the rules.
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The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.
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All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.
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Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding.
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
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Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.
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Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand.
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Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.
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Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
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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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Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.
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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.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Remy de Gourmont
Born:
April 4, 1858
Died:
September 27, 1915
(aged 57)
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