(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored … - Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.

Aberrations, House, Mysterious, Reached, Sick, Yellow

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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.

Acrid, Colours, Eye, Men, Nervous, Orange

The only really indecent people are the chaste.

Chaste, Drinking, Indecent, People

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.

Devil, God, Insane, Life, Stirs, Water

. . . he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever growing horror,--a detestation which had reacted strongly on his literary and artistic tastes; he refused, as far as possible, to have anything to do with pictures and books whose subjects were in any way connected with modern existence.

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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.

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