Remy de gourmont
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
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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.
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
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The woman who loves always smells good.
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Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
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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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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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