Quotes by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques

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For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted. — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the histo — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable – which all gaiety m — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, the — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
Fools – in other words most people – imagine that it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to recover our youth; b — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dr — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysi — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) t — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques