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
   
Remy de Gourmont   Name:
Remy de Gourmont
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
French
Birth:
April 4, 1858
Death:
September 27, 1915
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