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Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “If Baudelaire had made out among the hieroglyphics of the soul the critical age of thought and feeling, it was Poe who, in the sphere of morbid psychology, had carried out the closest scrutiny of the will.”

51. “If Baudelaire had made out among the hieroglyphics of the soul the critical age of thought and feeling, it was Poe who, in the sphere of morbid psychology, had carried out the closest scrutiny of the will.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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

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

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans Quote: “Amid the solitude in which he lived, without new nourishment, without any fresh experiences, without any renovation of thought, without that exchange of sensations common to society, in this unnatural confinement in which he persisted, all the questionings forgotten during his stay in Paris were revived as active irritants.”

53. “Amid the solitude in which he lived, without new nourishment, without any fresh experiences, without any renovation of thought, without that exchange of sensations common to society, in this unnatural confinement in which he persisted, all the questionings forgotten during his stay in Paris were revived as active irritants.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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.”

54. “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: “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.”

55. “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: “In his opinion, it was possible to appease certain desires reputed to be the most difficult to satisfy under normal conditions – and that, what’s more, by a subtle subterfuge, by an approximate simulation of the object of those very desires.”

56. “In his opinion, it was possible to appease certain desires reputed to be the most difficult to satisfy under normal conditions – and that, what’s more, by a subtle subterfuge, by an approximate simulation of the object of those very desires.”

— 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.”

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

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

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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