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“Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!”
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“I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in”
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“If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.”
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“No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.”
Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand
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“Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.”
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“Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.”
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“I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”
Source : "You Ask The Questions". The Independent, September 12, 2002.
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“It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.”
