To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. - Remy De Gourmont
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
- Remy De Gourmont
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness - Remy De Gourmont
Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time - Remy De Gourmont
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. - Remy De Gourmont
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
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; comm… - Remy De Gourmont
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; comm…
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. - Remy De Gourmont
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first … - Remy De Gourmont
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first …
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. - Remy De Gourmont
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. I… - Remy De Gourmont
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. I…
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