“The confused medley of meditations on art and literature in which he had indulged since his isolation, as a dam to bar the current of old memories, had been rudely swept away, and the onrushing, irresistible wave crashed into the present and future, submerging everything beneath the blanket of the past, filling his mind with an immensity of sorrow, on whose surface floated, like futile wreckage, absurd trifles and dull episodes of his life.” PastReadingLiteratureSadnessBooksWords Book:Against Nature Source: Against Nature
“He could never get over his amazement at the incredible ignorance, the instinctive aversion for art, the type of ideas, the terror of words, peculiar to Catholics. Why was this? For after all there was no reason why believers should be more ignorant and stupid than any other folks. Indeed, the contrary ought to be the truth.” ArtReligionCultureLiteratureSinMoralityCatholicism Author:Joris-Karl Huysmans
“در واقع، هنگامی که انسانی برخوردار از موهبت استعداد و تیزهوشی ناگزیر باشد در دوران پر ملال تنگ نظری سفیهانه زندگی کند، هنرمند، ناخواسته و بی اختیار، گرفتار وسوسه ی پناه بردن به زمانه ای دیگر می شود.” LiteratureNovelادبیاترمانAesthetic ExtremismArt And Beautyافراط گرایی زیباشناسانههنر و زیبایی Book:Against Nature Source: Against Nature
“At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.” SaidSoulPastLiteratureGriefPeriodsProfoundWoundsDeceptionDesperateDisappointedContemptAttributesTerrifiedRuinedPoignantDisgustedMaladyDisillusionSatietyMischanceDisappointed Love Book:Against the Grain: (À rebours) Source: Against the Grain: (À rebours)
“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.” ThinkingPersonsLiteratureExcuse Book:L -bas (Down There). Source: L -bas (Down There).
