"Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself"

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...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.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans