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Joris Karl Huysmans byl francouzský spisovatel, literární a výtvarný kritik vlámského původu.

✵ 5. únor 1848 – 12. květen 1907
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Joris Karl Huysmans: Citáty anglicky

“Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.”

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Zdroj: Against Nature

“Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.”

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Zdroj: Against Nature

“Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God… It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.”

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“I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove… that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.”

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“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”

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Joris-Karl Huysmans kniha Là-Bas

Zdroj: Là-Bas

“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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