Joris-Karl Huysmans Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 5, 1848 - May 12, 1907
Birthday: February 5
Death: May 12
(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.
topic: Yellow, Sick, House, Thoughts And Emotions, Baudelaire, Tetanus, Yellow Fever, Hatching
