About Remy de Gourmont: Remy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work.
Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.
The greater part of a men who speak ill of women are speaking of a certain woman.
It is a communion at once mystic & real, in the guise of metal. Money which is liberty, is also fecundation. It is the universal sperm without which human societies would remain but barren wombs. Paganism, which knew & understood everything, opens to...
As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is u...
It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put back the hands, the other to advance them. Let us not...
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. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.
Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.
The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are o...
Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
The woman who loves always smells good.
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
