• Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

    Joris-Karl Huysmans: Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.
    Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L…-bas (Down There).”, p.213, Courier Corporation