The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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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.Remy de Gourmont
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
Remy de Gourmont
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.
Remy de Gourmont
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Remy de Gourmont
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
Remy de Gourmont
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Remy de Gourmont
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