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Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier

The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.

Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.

Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: The soul is pained by all things it thinks upon.

The soul is pained by all things it thinks upon.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

Daydream is the only good thing in life. Everything else is vulgar and empty.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Only the chaste are truly obscene.

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: Now God refused to come down to earth in the form of potato-flour; that was an undeniable, indisputable fact.

Now God refused to come down to earth in the form of potato-flour; that was an undeniable, indisputable fact.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: That moment of grace mentioned by Lacordaire, when the last shaft of light penetrates the soul and unites the truths there lying dispersed.

That moment of grace mentioned by Lacordaire, when the last shaft of light penetrates the soul and unites the truths there lying dispersed.

Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes: The only really indecent people are the chaste.

The only really indecent people are the chaste.