Реми де Гурмон цитаты

„В сердце женщины заключены ее душа и разум.“

„Самое неприятное в поисках правды то, что ее находишь.“

„Женщина всё ещё помнит первый поцелуй, в то время, как мужчина уже давно забыл о последнем.“

„В жизни, как в грамматике: исключений больше, чем правил.“

„Мужчины, которые отзываются плохо о женщинах, обычно имеют в виду лишь одну из них.“

„Политика зависит от политиков почти в той же степени, что погода от астрономов.“

„Целомудрие - самое неестественное из половых извращений“

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

часто приписывается Олдосу Хаксли, процитировавшему это высказывание к книге "Слепец в Газе"

Реми де Гурмон: Цитаты на английском языке

“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.”

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.”

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

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

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

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

Le Problème du Style (1902)

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

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

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

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.”

Le Problème du Style (1902)

“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.”

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

“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.”

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

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

A Virgin Heart (trans. Aldous Huxley), Musson Books, Toronto 1922
A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

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

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

“Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.”

Le Problème du Style (1902)

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

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)