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#17017
To explain a bit of straw, disassemble the entire universe.

Rémy de Gourmont
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#17018
When a people no longer dare to defend his language, he is ripe for slavery.

Rémy de Gourmont
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#17019
Gratitude, like milk, turns sour, if the vase that contains is not scrupulously clean.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17020
Man starts with love love and ends by loving a woman. The woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Physique de l'amour)

#17021
Indulgence is the aristocratic form of disdain.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Les Chevaux de Diomède)

#17022
The irony is foresight.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades littéraires)

#17023
Indulgence is the aristocratic form of disdain.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Les Chevaux de Diomède)

#17024
Sexual modesty is a progress on the exhibitionism of the monkeys.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17025
The citizen is a variety of the man; degenerate or primitive variety, it is to humans what the cat is to the wild cat.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Epilogues)

#17026
Happiness, like wealth, has parasites.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17027
Lend to the beasts of the glimmers of humanity, is to degrade.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades littéraires)

#17028
One becomes what one is, and this without even meaning to, and despite opposing efforts.

Rémy de Gourmont
(La culture des idées)

#17029
The most complicated woman is closer to most simple human nature.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades littéraires)

#17030
Suffice to say that we no longer know our language and that by dint of learn of other peoples, we left our age and dry out.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Esthétique de la langue française)

#17031
The disease, old age, death, three great humiliations for the man.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Les pas sur le sable)

#17032
What is missing most in secular education, it is that it teaches not to die.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Dernières pensées inédites)

#17033
We have no way course, that maybe the silence to express our thoughts.

Rémy de Gourmont
(La culture des idées)

#17034
Statistics is the art of stripping the numbers of all reality they contain. "A" "a" equal, sometimes; most often: 1 = x.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17035
The property is needed, but it is not that it always remains in the same hands.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17036
It is pretty much obvious that those who support the death penalty have more affinity with the assassins who against.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Pensées inédites)

#17037
Morality is a talent company.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17038
Not a conjurer equal nature: it operates under our eyes, in full light, and however there is no way to penetrate his stuff.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Pensées inédites)

#17039
A fool doesn't get bored; He contemplates.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17040
The law cannot take into account personalities, and physiologies. Then, in half of the cases, it is criminal and in the other half, you idiot.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17041
Superstition is a little more human than religion, because it lacks moral.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Pensées inédites)

#17042
The thought makes the kidneys. We can both carry burdens and ideas.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17043
A vice is like a love, there is nothing that we sacrifice to him.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Pensées inédites)

#17044
Policy depends on statesmen, roughly, as the time depends on astronomers.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17045
There is a person with whom we never to be completely sincere, although we know that she knows us inside and we can count on his benevolence: ourselves.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Pensées inédites)

#17046
Find out what everyone knows, is to know nothing. Knowledge begins there where begins what the world doesn't know.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17047
An opinion is shocking only when she is a conviction.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17048
There are two ways for the Prophet: announce a future consistent with the past, or be wrong.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Promenades philosophiques)

#17049
What makes the woman more beautiful, it is the indivisibility of his genitals.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Physique de l'amour)

#17050
Love is deep animal: it is its beauty.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17051
With the word duty, we're dancing the citizen as a bear with a musette.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17052
What there is terrible when we're looking for the truth, is to be found.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17053
The truth is an illusion, and the illusion is a truth.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17054
The opinions are transmitted hereditarily, as land; It built; it becomes a city, this ends up making history.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17055
Leisure, this is the greatest joy and the greatest conquest of man.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17056
One who does not die once a day ignores life.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Le livre des masques)

#17057
The male is an accident; the female would have sufficed.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Physique de l'amour)

#17058
There is a person with whom we will never be completely sincere, ourselves.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Pensées inédites)

#17059
The selfless is a reasonable selfish.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17060
The origin of the deeper ailments of humanity comes from deaf war that skinny women and fat women.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17061
Be human: If you have a son who does not know to distinguish colors, make it rather an art critic as a railroad mechanic.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Des Pas sur le sable)

#17062
Women still remember their first kiss for a long time after that men have forgotten the last.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

#17063
There are writers who thought seems a brain mold

Rémy de Gourmont
(Des pas sur le sable)

#17064
The man is an animal happened, that's all.

Rémy de Gourmont
(Source inconnue)

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