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The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
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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