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1. "She lit the candelabras which stood on the mantelpiece. Placed at the head of the bead, on a side-table, they looked like two burning bushes, their flames solemn and inextinguishable. But beneath that avalanche of light the dead man became hideous: the pale head displayed a whiteness more livid than the bedsheet, ghastly against the cambric of the pillow; pits of shadow were hollowed out under the eyes and his nose was villainously elongated, and even the mouth seemed wicked – his mouth, which was so very gentle!" ~ Remy De Gourmont
2. "Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end." ~ Remy De Gourmont
3. "The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence." ~ Remy De Gourmont
4. "Art is the accomplice of love." ~ Remy De Gourmont
5. "A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble" ~ Remy De Gourmont
6. "Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions." ~ Remy De Gourmont
7. "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
8. "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
9. "Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction." ~ Remy De Gourmont
10. "Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont." ~ Remy De Gourmont
11. "The vainglory of wishing to understand is dangerous, immoral and, above all, old-fashioned. The modern way – perhaps the final way - is to say: Go forward, without knowing why, as quickly as possible, towards an unknown goal! To act and think are opposites which identify one only in the Absolute. To accomplish all one's movements – of the head, the arms, the legs – without ever quite attaining the status of a puppet, but with a certainty that gives one a feeling of rightness: that is what is nowadays held up as the ideal. Be citizens of Universal activity! Forget to be conscious of ourselves! The blind horse gallops without hesitation, not knowing where it is going, not caring where it has been: so let up put out our eyes!" ~ Remy De Gourmont
12. "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?" ~ Remy De Gourmont
13. "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." ~ Remy De Gourmont
14. "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." ~ Remy De Gourmont
15. "The snow kept on falling, and penetrated so deeply into her prone body that she had no other feeling than that of wanting to die, buried under these adorable snow kisses, to be embalmed in the snow - and then to be swept off, in a final gust, to the land of eternal snow, to the fabled infinite mountains where the darling little adultresses lie in a perpetual swoon, ceaselessly and firmly caressed by all the perverse angels." ~ Remy De Gourmont
16. "The only excuse a man has for writing is that he express himself, that he reveal to others the kind of world reflected in the mirror of his soul; his only excuse is that he be original." ~ Remy De Gourmont
17. "He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe." ~ Remy De Gourmont
18. "Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called." ~ Remy De Gourmont
19. "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
20. "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
21. "Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last." ~ Remy De Gourmont
22. "Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." ~ Remy De Gourmont
23. "Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity." ~ Remy De Gourmont
24. "Man is the inventor of stupidity." ~ Remy De Gourmont
25. "The woman who loves always smells good." ~ Remy De Gourmont
26. "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
27. "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
28. "Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live." ~ Remy De Gourmont
29. "Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity." ~ Remy De Gourmont
30. "Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him." ~ Remy De Gourmont

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The categories that a reader brings to a reading, and the categories in which that reading itself is placed - the learned social and political categories, and the physical categories into which a library is divided - constantly modify one another in ways that appear, over the years, more or less arbitrary or more or less imaginative. Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion."
Author: Alberto Manguel

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