The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated the surrounding atmosphere with the melody of sounds that faded like the ashes of dead years.
Georges RodenbachDissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
Georges RodenbachTag: dissonance
The pale water which goes away along paths of silence.
Georges RodenbachAs he walked, the sad faded leaves were driven pitilessly around him by the wind, and under the mingling influences of autumn and evening, a craving for the quietude of the grave … overtook him with unwanted intensity.
Georges RodenbachThe beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
Georges RodenbachTag: bruges the-bells-of-bruges
...without knowing why, he yielded to the temptation of those lips and flung onto them, eating them, partaking of their sacrament... Eucharist of love with a red host!
Georges RodenbachTag: love kiss the-bells-of-bruges
Dead towns are the Cathedrals of Silence. They, too, have their gargoyles, singular figures, exaggerated, dubious, set in high profile. They stand out from the mass of grey, which takes all it has in the way of character, its twitchings of stagnant life from them. Some have been distorted by solitude, others grimace with a directionless fervour; here there are masks of cherished lust, there faces ceaselessly sculpted and furrowed by mysticism. Human gargoyles, the only figures of interest in this monotonous population.
Georges RodenbachTag: bruges the-bells-of-bruges cathedrals-of-silence dead-towns human-gargoyles
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
Georges RodenbachTag: art religion the-bells-of-bruges
There are women whose love only ends with death.
Georges RodenbachCan there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...
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