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Joris-Karl Huysmans has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The only really indecent people are the chaste.
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and…
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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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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the…
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead…
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Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the…
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Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
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There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.
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The modern painter…is an excellent couturier
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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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Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on…
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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…
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes…
— Emmanuel Levinas
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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.…
— Frederick Buechner
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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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There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties…
— Saint Augustine
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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds…
— Saint Augustine
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So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer…
— Dorothy Day
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The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
— Blaise Pascal
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As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to…
— Scott Hahn
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I will say this quite plainly, what truly human is -and don't be afraid of this word- love. And I mean it…
— Emmanuel Levinas
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