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

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment. — Raine Maida

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well ... — James Forrestal

His cross, his manger, and his crown, Are big with glories yet unknown. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

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

It is important for everyone to keep in close contact and preferably be in physical proximity with their loved ones. — Deepak Chopra

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

When it comes to work, I will stop at nothing. When it comes to writing, I will never stop. — Robert Black

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

Go to the devil, Captain Drake. (Serenity)
That's not very ladylike! (Morgan)
Then try this one. Go to hell, and ... and rot! (Serenity) — Kinley MacGregor

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

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

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

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

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't. — Byron Dorgan

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

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

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

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

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him, — Michel Houellebecq

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

I stood in the rain, watching his car go. A string tied to it looped around my heart and pulled tighter and tighter until it sheared clean through. — Leah Raeder

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

My wish for you ... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. — Sima Qian

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

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

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around. — John Wooden

When I see an amazing play or movie, it inspires me as an actress and a filmmaker. — Laura Prepon

Only the chaste are truly obscene. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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