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“Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas

“It was here that she was indeed Woman, for here she gave rein to her ardent and cruel temperament. She was living, more refined and savage, more execrable and exquisite. She more energetically awakened the dulled senses of man, more surely bewitched and subdued his power of will, with the charm of a tall venereal flower, on sacrilegious beds, in impious hothouses.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“and, indeed, just as the most charming tune in the world becomes vulgar, intolerable, as soon as the general public is humming it, as soon as the street - organs have taken it up, the work for which charlatan art fanciers do not remain indifferent, the work which nitwits do not challenge, which is not satisfied with arousing the enthusiasm of the few, also becomes, by virtue of that very fact, corrupted, banal, almost repellent to the initiated.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“There wasn't anything worse than waiting when you were unsure of the outcome.”
― Denis Thériault