Top 10 Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly Quotes

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

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#2. For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

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#3. He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

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#4. She was as inept at causing pain as she was at giving pleasure. Strange lioness, indeed! She thought she possessed claws, but when she tried to bare them, nothing emerged from her magnificent velvet paws. Her scratches were of velvet!

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#5. Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!

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#6. Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...

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

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#8. For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross

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#9. In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

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#10. My good fellow," said Mesnil, stopping, "ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men like you.

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