“Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic.”

“It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers th...”

“More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.”

“Youre like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youre alone, so you think its a vast, magnificent panorama. You havent s...”

“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.”

“With you I feel like I'm already good enough; I only have to believe it. I can't lose you again. He needed to make the confession because he was realising that Lachlan meant as much to him nowas he...”

“With you I feel like I'm already good enough; I only have to believe it. I can't lose you again.” He needed to make the confession because he was realising that Lachlan meant as much to him nowas h...”

“Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.”

“Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.”