"In this game he had acquired a great……" — Joris-Karl Huysmans
"In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state."
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
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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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