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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
Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont
Born: Apr 4, 1858
Died: Sep 27, 1915

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Enough, Secret, Pleasing, Say, Tell, Bore, Understood, Just, Being, The Secret Of

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