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. Jules Barbey DAurevilly
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When Oscar Wilde writes “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” it gives an interesting perspective of how he viewed women. It is easy to see that he considered women inferior to men after reading this quote. He was probably thinking that it was almost impossible for a woman to succeed in the world without being married off to a wealthy man.

Source: Le Bonheur Dans Le Crime

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