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(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.Jules Barbey DAurevilly
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I did not want to be taken for a fool — the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.Jules Barbey DAurevilly
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For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.Jules Barbey DAurevilly
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Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...Jules Barbey DAurevilly
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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.Jules Barbey DAurevilly
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Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!Jules Barbey DAurevilly