Frasi di Remy de Gourmont

“La politica dipende dagli uomini di stato pressappoco come il tempo dipende dagli astronomi.”

“Un'emozione estetica rende l'uomo recettivo ad un'emozione erotica. L'arte è complice dell'amore. Se si allontana l'amore non ci sarà a lungo arte.”

“Un imbecille non si annoia mai: si contempla.”

“Anche la felicità, come la ricchezza, ha i suoi parassiti.”

“Di tutte le aberrazioni sessuali forse la più aberrante è la castità.”

“L'uomo è un animale di successo e niente più.”

“Ogni sforzo di un uomo sincero è diretto a erigere le proprie impressioni personali a delle leggi.”

“Prima di sottoporti ad una operazione chirurgica metti in ordine i tuoi affari terreni: potresti sopravvivere.”

“Viviamo sempre meno, e impariamo sempre di più. La sensibilità si arrende all'intelligenza.”

“Le donne sanno delle cose che non sono mai state scritte né insegnate.”

“L'arte dello scrivere consiste nel ripetere cose già dette e nel ripeterle in modo che la gente creda di leggerle per la prima volta.”

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

“Art is the accomplice of love.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Literary style is the product of the toal phyisology.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.”

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

“Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.”

“Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.”