Frases de Remy de Gourmont

“Saber lo que todo el mundo conoce es como no saber nada. El saber comienza allí donde el mundo comienza a ignorar. Asimismo, la verdadera ciencia está más allá de la verdadera ciencia.”

“Seguimos esperando hasta cuando desesperamos.”

“Afortunados los hombres que no tienen principios; pueden decir estupideces con solemnidad.”

“De todas las aberraciones sexuales, la más singular tal vez sea la castidad.”

“Es menester mucho ingenio para no naufragar en medio de la popularidad.”

“La enfermedad, la vejez, la muerte: tres grandes humillaciones para el hombre.”

“La lógica es buena en los razonamientos, pero en la vida no sirve para nada.”

“La mayoría de hombres que difaman a las mujeres están difamando a una sola.”

“La política depende de los políticos como el tiempo depende de los astrónomos.”

“Las ideas muy sencillas sólo están al alcance de mentes complicadas.”

“Los amos del pueblo serán siempre aquellos que puedan prometerle un paraíso.”

“No perdáis el tiempo ni en llorar el pasado ni en llorar el porvenir. Vivid vuestras horas, vuestros minutos. Las alegrías son como las flores que la lluvia mancha y el viento deshoja.”

“El arte está hecho para ser sentido y no para ser comprendido. Por eso, cada vez que se quiere hablar de él según la inteligencia no se dicen más que tonterías.”

“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.”