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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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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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Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
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But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another.…
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Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it,…
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There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for…
— Dale Carnegie
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Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again,…
— Maria Woodworth-Etter
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You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who…
— Gaelen Foley
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Take your failure sportingly.In failure never look for one excuse or another.There is nothing to be demoralarized on failure but seeking excuse…
— DrAnil Kr Sinha
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You knew. I refuse to believe that you didn't. If you didn't, then you are incompetent. And that is one excuse you…
— Tahj Wilson
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