"Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than……" — Joris-Karl Huysmans
"Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin."
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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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