“Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.” LifeMemoriesOblivionEphemeral Book:Philosophic Nights in Paris Source: Philosophic Nights in Paris
“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.” LifeMankindDecadence Book:The Angels of Perversity Source: The Angels of Perversity
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLifeNeedsDifferentScienceLyingGeniusScientistTransformedSensibilityElectricityBalloonsStiflingDevouring Author:Remy de Gourmont
“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.” LifeExistenceVirtueFlowerPaidInjusticeTheftCemeteryDisequilibrium Author:Remy de Gourmont
