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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.

Remy de Gourmont

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Remy de Gourmont
Age: 57 †
Born: 1858
Born: April 4
Died: 1915
Died: September 17
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