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.

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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.