21 Quotes by Rachilde

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

It is true, Monsieur,” Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, “that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one’s self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.

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