Quotes by : Rémy de Gourmont

How many contradictions! Eh! If I loaded my wagon all on the same side, I'd tumble it over.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

Nothing returns, nothing begins anew; it is never the same thing, and yet it seems always the same. For,....

To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer....

To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude the freedom of everyone....

Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.....

Demons are like obedient dogs they come when they are called.

To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of....

Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would....

The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.