Georges Rodenbach Quotes

• The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Sorrow, Beauty Of Life, Superiors

  Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

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• There are women whose love only ends with death.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Ends

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• The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Dream, Art, Essence

  Georges Rodenbach, Mike Mitchell (2011). “Bruges-La-Morte”, p.13, SCB Distributors

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• Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Mind, Body, Dissonance

  Georges Rodenbach (1903). “Bruges-la-morte: A Romance”

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• 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 Rodenbach

  Art, Grace, Contentment

  Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

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• Can 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.

  Georges Rodenbach

  Girl, Dying, Dresses

  Georges Rodenbach (2007). “The Bells of Bruges”, Dedalus Limited

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