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Joris-Karl Huysmans

"His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar."

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1959). “Against nature: a new translation of À rebours”

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#Humanity Quotes #Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“"How does one grow up?" I asked a friend. She answered, "By thinking!"”
“Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation - where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use”
“This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.”
“The reason I introduced sex - or erotic imagery - to Purple is not only because I don't want sex to be hidden but because also I consider it as an extension of fashion, the way the body expresses seduction and beauty. It's very artificial to put sex in a ghetto. Plus, sex sells.”
“I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.”

Source : "A Disney Princess, Not Winking but Floating" by Margy Rochlin, www.nytimes.com. November 4, 2007.
“The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.235, Penguin UK
“You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.”
“When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for joy increases. The more I "have" Jesus, the deeper my enjoyment of him. He increases my desire for those things that are good, adds value to that which is benign, and diminishes the strength of the negative (the evil) that threatens to throttle me. My dependence on material values and experiences as the means by which I define or please myself decreases.”

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