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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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An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except…
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Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
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Why stay on the earth except to grow.
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... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.
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For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just…
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I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except…
— Russell Means
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Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and…
— Loren Eiseley
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There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two…
— Michael Specter
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