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> [“Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/go-forth-more-boldly-look-at-things-more-widely-pray-as-best-you-can/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

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## More by Joris-Karl Huysmans

> [“I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/i-seek-new-perfumes-ampler-blossoms-untried-pleasures/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/far-from-seeking-to-justify-as-does-the-church-the-necessity-of/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/no-longer-was-she-merely-the-dancing-girl-who-extorts-a-cry-of-lust/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/ah-but-my-courage-fails-me-and-my-heart-is-sick-within-me-lord-take/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [“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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/there-is-not-one-single-invention-of-nature-s-however-subtle-or/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/ah-when-one-has-not-the-gift-of-rendering-one-s-grief-superbly-and/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/he-wanted-in-short-a-work-of-art-both-for-what-it-was-in-itself-and/)

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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 reached those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/baudelaire-had-descended-to-the-bottom-of-the-inexhaustible-mine-had/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/what-he-wanted-was-colours-which-would-appear-stronger-and-clearer-in/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/i-wish-to-confound-all-these-people-to-create-a-work-of-art-of-a/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/the-louis-xiii-style-in-perfumery-composed-of-the-elements-dear-to/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [The only really indecent people are the chaste.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/the-only-really-indecent-people-are-the-chaste/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [“Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/go-forth-more-boldly-look-at-things-more-widely-pray-as-best-you-can/)

[Joris-Karl Huysmans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joris-karl-huysmans/)

> [“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/he-cared-little-for-commonly-experienced-emotions-for-everyday/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joris-karl-huysmans/his-contempt-for-humanity-grew-fiercer-and-at-last-he-came-to-realize/)

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