Rachilde Quotes

#1. All monsters have their fits of depression.

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#2. The gods are alone, and when they stroll, by chance, on earth, they are pathological cases or buffoons, or histrions ... who are despised!

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#3. An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

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#4. Although he had always been a gentleman till then, he had 'caught his century', a disease impossible to analyze but by this simple phrase.

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#5. A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

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#6. Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

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#7. Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.

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#8. I am like a little child naked in a strong wind. I have a fever, I shiver, I'm too hot or too cold. My lips retain the unusual fruity taste of your mouth, & the bitter taste of your saliva lingers on my tongue, making me find everything I eat bland, sickening since nothing is as good as your love.

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#9. I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better ... I have wanted the impossible ...

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#10. I want a dress the color of suffering

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#11. No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.

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