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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. (“A Woman’s Vengeance”)

horror, sublime

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred’s nectar!

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

love, lust, pleasure

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

priests, secrets, surgery

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Dandies, who – as you know – scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.

astonishment, dandies, emotion, goethe

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us…

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.

beauty, ugliness

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, ‘I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,’ and – devil take me! – plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.

beauty, haughty, women

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.

devil, misogny, women

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was pleasant and formidable – which all gaiety must be in a society which would despise you if, while amusing it, you did not make it tremble a little. (“A Woman’s Vengeance”)