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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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Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in…
— Gautama Buddha
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I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.
— Steffi Graf
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Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with…
— David Mitchell
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I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.
— Mark Twain
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