Mind Quotes by Joris-Karl Huysmans

8 Mind quotes by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Joris-Karl Huysmans’ eight brief musings on the mind carry his distinctive, decadent tone. Each line offers a quick, evocative glimpse into his literary exploration of consciousness.

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No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious…

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(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally…

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“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more…

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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools…

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“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his…

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In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And…

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...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded…

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Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew…

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“I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.”

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Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God…

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Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic…

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“There is not one single invention of (Nature's), however subtle or impressive it may be thought to be, that the human spirit cannot create;…

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“Ah, when one has not the gift of rendering one's grief superbly and transforming it into literary or musical passages which weep magnificently, the…

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“He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on…

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“What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not particularly care if they looked crude or…

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I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish…

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“The Louis XIII style in perfumery, composed of the elements dear to that period - orris-powder, musk, civet and myrtle-water, already known by the…

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The only really indecent people are the chaste.

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“Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.”

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“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

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