"Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility."

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Remy de Gourmont

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“She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.”
“Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.”
“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
“This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.”
“For the most part people are not curious except about themselves.”
“Well the Kopâ€™s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where youâ€™ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And theyâ€™re united and loyal.”
“You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.”
“Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.”

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