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" Oh! Schopenhauer alone had done the right thing! He did not intend to cure anything, offered the sick person no compensation, no hope; but his theory of pessimism was basically the great comforter of the chosen spirits, of all sublime souls. It revealed society as it is, it emphasized the innate stupidity of women, showed the beaten paths, saved people from disappointment, urged them to limit their hopes as much as possible, and if the strength is enough not to cherish any ...
These considerations relieved the duke of a heavy burden. This great German banished his shudder of thoughts and, through the points of contact between his two doctrines, brought him to the point where he could not forget this poetic and touching Catholicism in which he was raised and of which he had soaked in the essence in all pores in his youth. "

Joris-Karl Huysmans , Against Nature (À Rebours)


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Joris-Karl Huysmans quote : Oh! Schopenhauer alone had done the right thing! He did not intend to cure anything, offered the sick person no compensation, no hope; but his theory of pessimism was basically the great comforter of the chosen spirits, of all sublime souls. It revealed society as it is, it emphasized the innate stupidity of women, showed the beaten paths, saved people from disappointment, urged them to limit their hopes as much as possible, and if the strength is enough not to cherish any ...<br />These considerations relieved the duke of a heavy burden. This great German banished his shudder of thoughts and, through the points of contact between his two doctrines, brought him to the point where he could not forget this poetic and touching Catholicism in which he was raised and of which he had soaked in the essence in all pores in his youth.