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> [“It was van Hulle who had been the initiator of this restoration of their ancestral language to its former glory as a means of reawakening national consciousness. He had called conferences and incited a vast number of people to petition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/it-was-van-hulle-who-had-been-the-initiator-of-this-restoration-of/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/georges-rodenbach-9570_flanders_it-was-van-hulle-who-had-been-the-initia_1277756.jpg)

> [“The crowd listened all the more closely for having waited and despaired, especially since this time the bells, ringing softly, demanded a deeper hush. The prelude was muted, a blend in which one could no longer distinguish bells alternating then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/the-crowd-listened-all-the-more-closely-for-having-waited-and/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

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## More by Georges Rodenbach

> [“Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/mevr-cadzand-feared-for-her-son-who-with-his-responsive-nature-as/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/a-great-melancholy-was-hanging-in-the-air-giving-their-love-a-more/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“Oh, the sudden change of perspective brought about by travel and absence! How different everything was here: the people in the streets, the houses,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/oh-the-sudden-change-of-perspective-brought-about-by-travel-and/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by the two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/all-lovers-desire-solitude-in-order-to-possess-each-other-more/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the horizon merged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/now-borluut-was-seeing-it-from-close-to-and-to-its-very-end-it-seemed/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“He felt alone, prey to the tedium, to the dreariness of time, especially at the approach of twilight which, during those late-autumn days, came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/he-felt-alone-prey-to-the-tedium-to-the-dreariness-of-time-especially/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/can-there-be-anything-more-sad-than-a-girl-dying-on-the-day-of-her/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand out from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/dead-towns-are-the-cathedrals-of-silence-they-too-have-their/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/is-it-not-strange-how-quickly-one-can-become-detached-from-everything/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“(We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/we-fell-out-of-love-with-life-for-having-learnt-too-much-of-death-at/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/does-it-not-sometimes-happen-in-life-that-our-actions-are-solely-for/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“That is the way it is, we always fall in love because of a detail, a nuance. It is a marker we set up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/that-is-the-way-it-is-we-always-fall-in-love-because-of-a-detail-a/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“In Bruges he had carried out a work which was anonymous and brought no glory, but was seen as admirable once it had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/in-bruges-he-had-carried-out-a-work-which-was-anonymous-and-brought/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/that-exquisite-sensual-pleasure-of-collectors-who-are-a-tactile/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

> [“The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-rodenbach/the-widower-reviewed-his-past-in-a-sunless-light-which-was/)

[Georges Rodenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-rodenbach/)

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