6 Quotes & Sayings By Denis De Rougemont

Denis de Rougemont was born in Rougemont, France, in 1871. He studied at Oxford, receiving his doctorate in history in 1896. Throughout his life he maintained close ties with England and the United States. He was a professor of history at the Sorbonne from 1911 to 1934 Read more

In 1936 he became a member of the Académie Française. The same year he published his first major work, "The Moral and Political Doctrine of Fascism," appearing in English translation in 1942.

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned...
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Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. Denis De Rougemont
This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and...
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This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics. Denis De Rougemont
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What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. Denis De Rougemont
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To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession. Denis De Rougemont
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Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance. Denis De Rougemont