Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach Body Copy Share Image
“Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.” — Georges Rodenbach Architecture Copy Share Image
“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—” — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!” — Georges Rodenbach Close to death Copy Share Image
“They needed to take action, make haste, embalm the dead town, dress the wounds of the sculptures, heal the sick windows, give… — Georges Rodenbach Architecture Copy Share Image
“He felt more cheerful, revived by the journey, released from himself and his poor life, uplifted by thoughts of the infinite.” — Georges Rodenbach Beach Copy Share Image
“They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.” — Georges Rodenbach Psychology Copy Share Image
“Oh, the vanity of plans! Our lives proceed regardless. All the things we work out in such minute detail slip away from… — Georges Rodenbach Change Copy Share Image
The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent,… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“(We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")” — Georges Rodenbach Death Copy Share Image
“Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hurts inflicted by… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“The act of writing itself is like an act of love. There is contact. There is exchange too. We no longer know… — Georges Rodenbach Letter writing Copy Share Image
“That is the way it is, we always fall in love because of a detail, a nuance. It is a marker we… — Georges Rodenbach Detail Copy Share Image
“Opposite is the old bell-tower of a church, all the more moving for being unfinished. What beauty there is in interrupted towers,… — Georges Rodenbach Beauty Copy Share Image
“Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist… — Georges Rodenbach Eucharist Copy Share Image
“Oh, the joy of the arrival of a child, which is both the one and the other, a mirror in which husband… — Georges Rodenbach Child Copy Share Image
“The only man who is truly happy is a man who has an idée fixe. It takes up his every minute, fills… — Georges Rodenbach Empty space Copy Share Image
“He felt alone, prey to the tedium, to the dreariness of time, especially at the approach of twilight which, during those late-autumn… — Georges Rodenbach Autumn Copy Share Image
“It was a delicate task, too, for the danger was twofold: on the one hand not to restore would mean losing precious… — Georges Rodenbach Architecture Copy Share Image
“Bruges had the air of a ghost town. The high towers, the trees along the canals withdrew, absorbed by the same muslin:… — Georges Rodenbach Autumn Copy Share Image
“Now they came, spectres in mourning, humbling themselves, ghosts, their eyes the only points of brightness. It was harrowing: a long cortege… — Georges Rodenbach Penitence Copy Share Image
“The carillon is, after all, the music of the people. Elsewhere, in the glittering capitals, public festivals are celebrated with fireworks, that… — Georges Rodenbach Bells Copy Share Image
“As he made his way back to his home on the Dijver, along the canals, beside the calm waters, Borluut felt his… — Georges Rodenbach Bruges Copy Share Image
“Gripped by a feverish urge to climb, he felt like running up the stone stairs. People often talk of the attraction of… — Georges Rodenbach Abyss Copy Share Image
“Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand… — Georges Rodenbach Bruges Copy Share Image
“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets,… — Georges Rodenbach Change Copy Share Image
“He discovered another bell, huge as well, but not plain and bare. Its metal sides were covered in scenes, bas-reliefs spreading their… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“It could be said that Borluut was in love with the town. But we only have one heart for all our loves,… — Georges Rodenbach Architecture Copy Share Image
“Besides that, his secret - and principal - reason for retiring was to devote himself entirely to his idée fixe, his collection… — Georges Rodenbach Clock Copy Share Image
“Soon the air of the high place was blowing in through the gaps in the masonry, the open bays, where the wind… — Georges Rodenbach Abyss Copy Share Image
“Once he had reached the top, he looked down on the town at his feet. Such repose, such tranquility, what a lesson… — Georges Rodenbach Bruges Copy Share Image
“In Bruges he had carried out a work which was anonymous and brought no glory, but was seen as admirable once it… — Georges Rodenbach Bruges Copy Share Image
“It was van Hulle who had been the initiator of this restoration of their ancestral language to its former glory as a… — Georges Rodenbach Bruges Copy Share Image
“The spiral staircase suddenly narrows, swirls like a stream drying up. Can he still get through up there, or is he going… — Georges Rodenbach Darkness Copy Share Image
