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Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Remy de Gourmont



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Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: French
Born: April 4, 1858
Died: September 27, 1915

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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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.
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

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

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
Remy de Gourmont

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Remy de Gourmont

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Words
Aberrations, Chastity, Most, Peculiar, Perhaps, Sexual
Definitions
Chastity, Most, Peculiar, Perhaps, Sexual
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