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Remy de Gourmont
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“All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Literary style is the product of the toal phyisology.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women feel and it suffices to steer them satisfactorily through life as well as to solve problems which leave men utterly helpless. It is only through feelings one can get in contact with them. There is but one way of understanding women and that is to love them.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sex is an absinthe whose strength only the strong can stand. In both sexes there are two successive crises, the sexual and the sensual. The first comes at a fixed period … the second generally coincides with the completion of growth. Sometimes, when decline is beginning, a third occurs, which like the first brings with it a condition of sentimentality.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Virgin Heart (trans. Aldous Huxley), Musson Books, Toronto 1922
“Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L'Idealisme esaay in Le Chemin de Velours 1902