Remy de Gourmont citáty

„Mozog civilizovaného človeka je múzeum protikladných právd.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Najčudnejšia zo všetkých sexuálnych úchyliek je asi zdržanlivosť.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Žena, ktorú milujeme, vždy má príjemnú vôňu.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Šťastie neexistuje, sú len šťastní ľudia.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Ten, kto nezomiera raz za deň, nepozná život.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Mravnosť je ta najneprirodzenejšia zo všetkých sexuálnych perverzii.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Je dosť očividné, že tí, čo sú zástancami trestu smrti, majú väčšiu príbuznosť s vrahmi ako tí, čo nimi nie sú.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„Art is the accomplice of love.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

„All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

Le Problème du Style (1902)

„Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„Innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

Preface to A Virgin Heart
A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„Women don't understand themselves and what is more they do not care about understanding.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„The decisive gestures in life are almost always the simplest, the most ingenuous.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„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

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„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

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„Women are complex, of course not more so than men, but in a different way that men cannot understand.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„We write as we feel, as we think, with our entire body.“

—  Remy de Gourmont

Le Problème du Style (1902)