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Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “It did not budge at all and he tapped it. The animal was dead. Doubtless accustomed to a sedentary existence, to a humble life spent underneath its poor shell, it had been unable to support the dazzling luxury imposed on it, the rutilant cope with which it had been covered, the jewels with which its back had been paved, like a pyx.”

51. “It did not budge at all and he tapped it. The animal was dead. Doubtless accustomed to a sedentary existence, to a humble life spent underneath its poor shell, it had been unable to support the dazzling luxury imposed on it, the rutilant cope with which it had been covered, the jewels with which its back had been paved, like a pyx.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things.”

52. “Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things.”

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Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “The bourgeoisie, reassured, strutted about in good humor, thanks to its wealth and the contagion of its stupidity. The result of its accession to power had been the destruction of all intelligence, the negation of all honesty, the death of all art, and, in fact, the debased artists had fallen on their knees, and they eagerly kissed the dirty feet of the eminent jobbers and low satraps whose alms permitted them to live.”

53. “The bourgeoisie, reassured, strutted about in good humor, thanks to its wealth and the contagion of its stupidity. The result of its accession to power had been the destruction of all intelligence, the negation of all honesty, the death of all art, and, in fact, the debased artists had fallen on their knees, and they eagerly kissed the dirty feet of the eminent jobbers and low satraps whose alms permitted them to live.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “More often than not, all that would be needed to complete the cure would be for the sick man to show a little imagination.”

54. “More often than not, all that would be needed to complete the cure would be for the sick man to show a little imagination.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “Thus his penchant for artificiality and his love of eccentricity could surely be explained as the results of sophistical studies, super-terrestrial subtleties, semi-theological speculations; fundamentally, they were ardent aspirations towards an ideal, towards an unknown universe, towards a distant beatitude, as utterly desirable as that promised by the Scriptures.”

55. “Thus his penchant for artificiality and his love of eccentricity could surely be explained as the results of sophistical studies, super-terrestrial subtleties, semi-theological speculations; fundamentally, they were ardent aspirations towards an ideal, towards an unknown universe, towards a distant beatitude, as utterly desirable as that promised by the Scriptures.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “What madness to beget children!”

56. “What madness to beget children!”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.”

57. “He desired a troubled indecision on which he might brood until he could shape it at will to a more vague or determinate form, according to the momentary state of his soul.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “This imbecile sentimentality, combined with a ferociously practical sense, represented the dominant motive of the age.”

58. “This imbecile sentimentality, combined with a ferociously practical sense, represented the dominant motive of the age.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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