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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 Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. 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 Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds Quote Right
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Quote Left Man is the inventor of stupidity. 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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