16 Quotes by Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
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The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.
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For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.
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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.
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Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.
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And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis, is the profoundest part of us. For the novelist, therefore, there is a new type of tragedy to be derived from these crimes, more intellectual than physical in character, which do not really seem to be crimes to the superficial judgement of old materialistic societies because they do not involve bloodshed, and murder is committed only in the sphere of feelings and manners.
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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.
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Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred’s nectar!
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