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Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. April 1858 – 27. September 1915
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Famous Remy de Gourmont Quotes

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

Remy de Gourmont

“Art is the accomplice of love.”

Remy de Gourmont

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

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)

“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)

Remy de Gourmont Quotes about women

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

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

Remy de Gourmont

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

Remy de Gourmont Quotes

“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)

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

Remy de Gourmont

Le Problème du Style (1902)

“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

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.”

Remy de Gourmont

Le Problème du Style (1902)

“Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.”

Remy de Gourmont

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

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

Remy de Gourmont

L'Idealisme esaay in Le Chemin de Velours 1902
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