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The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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
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
Make every effort to hear directly from God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.
— Mark Victor Hansen
Now God refused to come down to earth in the form of potato-flour; that was an undeniable, indisputable fact.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
The only really indecent people are the chaste.
— 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
I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
— Bat For Lashes
Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
— Johann Most
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
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
— John McGraw
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
Only the chaste are truly obscene.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.
— Amit Kalantri
There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans