Remy de Gourmont

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Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars. (The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work.). French Symbolist poet novelist and critic

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Quote Left Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds Quote Right
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Quote Left The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. Quote Right
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Quote Left Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. Quote Right
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Quote Left We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. Quote Right
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Quote Left Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. Quote Right
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