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

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. — Francoise Mallet-Joris

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

Really, one has some friends, and when one comes to think about it it is impossible to tell how one ever became friendly with them. — Francoise Mallet-Joris

You're at the top of the world - you're the most powerful thing on the sea when you're serving under her - but there's a cost. There's always a cost. — Emily Skrutskie

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

Women on trains
have a life
that is exactly livable
the precision of days flashing past — Audre Lorde

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

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 like the imp / in impossibility — Pierre Joris

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same. — Aberjhani

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it. — Francoise Mallet-Joris

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia. — Jeffrey Sachs

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

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself. — E. Lockhart

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become. — Kirsten Gillibrand