“Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion… — Georges Rodenbach Catholicism Copy Share Image
“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love… — 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
“All lovers desire solitude in order to possess each other more completely. They create for each other a new universe inhabited by… — Georges Rodenbach Love Copy Share Image
“Now Borluut was seeing it from close to. And to its very end, it seemed, from the way the line of the… — Georges Rodenbach Beach 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
Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A… — Georges Rodenbach Brides 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
“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
“(We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")” — Georges Rodenbach Death Copy Share Image
“Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him,… — Georges Rodenbach Enemy 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
“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
“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—” — Georges Rodenbach Collector Copy Share Image
“The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells… — Georges Rodenbach Autumn Copy Share Image
“Is that not what makes it great?' he retorted to his friend. 'Its beauty resides in its silence, and its glory in… — Georges Rodenbach Beauty Copy Share Image
“As he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn… — Georges Rodenbach Autumn Copy Share Image
“What an austere landscape! Borluut was alone, with nothing but the sky and water. No footsteps, apart from his own, marked the… — Georges Rodenbach Austere Copy Share Image
“Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.” — Georges Rodenbach Architecture 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
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach Body Copy Share Image
“Now Borluut tried to work out how this had happened to him. Passion flows like a river and it is very difficult… — Georges Rodenbach Passion 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
