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The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
The flowers of the forest are a' wide awae.
— Jane Elliott
The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.
— Charlotte Mary Yonge
I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
It's amazing how you can be a total shithead, and yet your soul still wants to hang out with you.
— Douglas Coupland
Go forth more boldly, look at things more widely, pray as best you can, and do not trouble yourself.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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
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
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
I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
— Leonard Maltin
The only really indecent people are the chaste.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
Sometimes I think I understand everything - then I regain consciousness.
— Garrison Keillor
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
Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.
— Kristin Armstrong
Release what is good.
— Philip Yancey
I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.
— David Duchovny
Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in the rough.
— Kameron Hurley
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
He was afraid of certainty.
— Oscar Wilde
I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.
— Michelle Williams
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
— George Santayana
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
Either get together or scatter.
— Hlovate
Only the chaste are truly obscene.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans