"No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who……" — Joris-Karl Huysmans
"No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning."
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Joris-Karl Huysmans
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23 Quotes by 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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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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