"How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing."

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Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1989). “The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans”

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.”
“A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.”
“You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.”
“I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.”
“But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.”
“I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.”

Source : "The wild west". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2001.
“Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.”
“I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.”

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