Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Remy de Gourmont
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“The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.”
“Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.”
“Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.”
“The man of genius may dwell unknown, but one always may recognize the path he has followed into the forest. It was a giant who passed that way. The branches are broken at a height that other men cannot reach.”
“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.”
“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 useless to them, or disagreeable.”
“It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.”
“Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.”
“To ameliorate & raise the standard of the workingmen to the bourgeois level, is perhaps to create a race of slaves content with their lot,-a cast of comfortable Pariahs.”
“Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.”
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