The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
Remy de Gourmont
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
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The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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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.
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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.
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Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last
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To be a member of such a crowd.. Is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.
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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
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truth
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be. But it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?
sex lust
Ah! I wish I had the courage to work for the debasement of my contemporaries. What good work it would be to defile their daughters: to insinuate something obscene into the infantile hands which caress each paternal beard and cheek; to poison them, even at the risk of perishing ourselves; to do as those Spanish monks did, who drank death in order that they might persuade the French rabble which had violated their monastery to do likewise.
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Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
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Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness.
life
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