"Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude,……" — Joris-Karl Huysmans
"Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity."
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
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23 Quotes by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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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…
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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…
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At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love…
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Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we…
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Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it…
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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…
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Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who…
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Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged…
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More Ark Quotes
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There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert.…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into…
— Thomas Dolby
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The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have…
— Joan Rivers
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties…
— Herman Melville
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Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their…
— Paul Washer
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The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Plan ahead: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
— Richard Cushing
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
— Ted Shackelford
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If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find…
— Peter Singer
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