Joris-Karl Huysmans quote: "En effet, lorsque l'époque où un homme de talent est obligé de vivre est plate et bête, l'artiste est, à son insu même, hanté par la nostalgie d'un autre siècle."

Far from seeking to
justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and
afflictio...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impos...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying t...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

His scorn of humanity grew by what it fed on; he realized in fact that the world is mostly made up o...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

One of these, bearing the name of Crampton, is an adorable blonde with a shrill voice, a long slende...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the pr...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

It was here that she was indeed Woman, for here she gave rein to her ardent and cruel temperament. S...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

And whenever they came back to his lips, these exquisite, funereal laments conjured up, in his mind,...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the un...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bes...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

From black-rimmed plates they ate turtle soup and eaten Russian
rye bread, ripe Turkish olives,...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

and if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regu...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the ...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for ...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

There is not one single invention of (Nature's), however subtle or impressive it may be thought to b...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances ...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not p...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates ...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

The Louis XIII style in perfumery, composed of the elements dear to that period - orris-powder, musk...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day whic...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old ma...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every ...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal streng...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to s...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandon...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mos...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the ...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oi...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetit...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when posi...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.
FRANçOISE MALLET-JORIS

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence
FRANCOISE MALLET-JORIS

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,...
KARL MARX

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ...
KARL MARX

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ...
KARL MARX

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real...
KARL MARX

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
KARL MARX

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, ...
KARL MARX

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
KARL MARX

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
KARL MARX

Democracy is the road to socialism.
KARL MARX

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
KARL MARX

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea...
KARL MARX

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
KARL MARX

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
KARL MARX

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc...
KARL MARX

Religion is the opium of the masses.
KARL MARX

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but...
KARL MARX

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
KARL MARX

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen...
KARL MARX

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
KARL MARX

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
KARL MARX

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
KARL MARX

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it...
KARL MARX

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
KARL MARX

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
KARL MARX

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i...
KARL PILKINGTON

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads...
KARL PILKINGTON

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &...
KARL PILKINGTON

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.
KARL PILKINGTON

I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
KARL PILKINGTON

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
KARL PILKINGTON

The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head s...
KARL PILKINGTON

We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ...
KARL PILKINGTON

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
KARL PILKINGTON

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.
KARL PILKINGTON

Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou...
KARL PILKINGTON

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
KARL PILKINGTON

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
KARL PILKINGTON

I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding...
KARL PILKINGTON

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON

I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was...
KARL PILKINGTON

People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
KARL PILKINGTON

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
KARL PILKINGTON

They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just...
KARL PILKINGTON

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
KARL PILKINGTON

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX

Statistics is the grammar of science.
KARL PEARSON

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come...
KARL LAGERFELD

But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ...
KARL ROVE

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha...
KARL ROVE

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.
KARL ROVE

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio...
KARL ROVE

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def...
KARL ROVE

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Na...
KARL ROVE

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiven...
KARL ROVE

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
KARL ROVE

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the presi...
KARL ROVE

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ...
KARL ROVE

I believe in traditional marriage.
KARL ROVE

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10...
KARL ROVE

And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M...
KARL ROVE

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He...
KARL ROVE

The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elemen...
KARL ROVE

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama qu...
KARL ROVE

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
KARL ROVE

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager...
KARL ROVE

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been o...
KARL ROVE

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo...
KARL ROVE

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
KARL ROVE

Grace can and does have a history.
KARL RAHNER

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic m...
KARL RAHNER

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
KARL RAHNER

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
KARL RAHNER

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou...
KARL RAHNER

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
KARL RADEK

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
KARL RADEK

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new moveme...
KARL RADEK

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions...
KARL RADEK

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of whic...
KARL RADEK

The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced agai...
KARL RADEK

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
KARL RADEK

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of ...
KARL RADEK

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the prov...
KARL POPPER

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c...
KARL POPPER

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
KARL POPPER

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life....
KARL POPPER

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
KARL POPPER

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal trut...
KARL PEARSON

I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr...
KARL MARLANTES

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i...
KARL MARLANTES

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig int...
KARL MARLANTES

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especia...
KARL MARLANTES

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi...
KARL MARLANTES

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I ...
KARL MARLANTES

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on...
KARL MARLANTES

And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering p...
KARL MARLANTES

I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well the...
KARL MARLANTES

I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin...
KARL MARLANTES

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
KARL MARLANTES

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about ...
KARL MARLANTES

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at th...
KARL MARLANTES

Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Sec...
KARL MARLANTES

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that ever...
KARL MARLANTES

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
KARL MARLANTES

It takes people a while to trust you.
KARL MALONE

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We re...
KARL MALONE

I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation'...
KARL MALONE

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did...
KARL MALONE

All records are not made to be broken.
KARL MALONE

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.
KARL MALONE

When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That ...
KARL MALONE

You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to st...
KARL MALONE

You don't try to do more than you should.
KARL MALONE

I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, b...
KARL MALONE

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know i...
KARL MALONE

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
KARL MALONE

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do ...
KARL MALONE

I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have...
KARL MALONE

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the l...
KARL MALONE

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call ...
KARL MALONE

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't f...
KARL MALONE

Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i...
KARL MALONE

You work for whatever you get in life.
KARL MALONE

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another ...
KARL MALONE

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play w...
KARL MALONE

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tel...
KARL MALONE

I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
KARL MALONE

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
KARL MALONE

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
KARL MALONE

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it....
KARL MALONE

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.
KARL MALDEN

I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every...
KARL MALDEN

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of whic...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole wor...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitati...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
KARL LIEBKNECHT

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in ...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred sl...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole worl...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its o...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would h...
KARL LIEBKNECHT

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Imperialism is not the creation of any one or any one group of states.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
KARL LIEBKNECHT

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the...
KARL LEHMANN

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of u...
KARL LEHMANN

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't ...
KARL LEHMANN

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make ou...
KARL LEHMANN

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of ...
KARL LEHMANN

But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making...
KARL LEHMANN

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
KARL LEHMANN

En effet, lorsque l'époque où un homme de talent est obligé de vivre est plate et bête, l'artiste est, à son insu même, hanté par la nostalgie d'un autre siècle.

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En effet, lorsque l'époque où un homme de talent est obligé de vivre est plate et bête, l'artiste est, à son insu même, hanté par la nostalgie d'un autre siècle.

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