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.

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). (The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work. Remy de Gourmont (April 4 1858 – September 27 1915) was a French Symbolist poet novelist and influential critic.