“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen brow of death: ah, that is something like it. A delicious straying away from the world,… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share
