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> [“My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men like you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/my-good-fellow-said-mesnil-stopping-ever-since-the-creation-of-the/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

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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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/dandies-who-as-you-know-scorn-all-emotions-as-being-beneath-them-and/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

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## More by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

> [“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/it-was-beautiful-like-so-many-senseless-things/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/she-was-one-of-those-women-of-good-family-who-no-longer-exist-elegant/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/in-paris-where-raillery-is-so-quick-to-throw-emotion-out-the-window/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/beauty-is-single-only-ugliness-is-multiple-and-even-then-its/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/night-which-in-autumn-seems-to-fall-from-the-sky-so-suddenly-chilled/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/for-with-dandies-a-joke-is-the-only-way-of-making-yourself-respected/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/extreme-civilization-robs-crime-of-its-frightful-poetry-and-prevents/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/and-in-fact-if-these-crimes-appeal-less-to-the-senses-they-appeal/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“Now, Mesnilgrand saw himself come to full maturity without the great military career that he had hoped for, his sword rusting in its scabbard,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/now-mesnilgrand-saw-himself-come-to-full-maturity-without-the-great/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been men like me specially intended to astonish men...men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/my-good-fellow-said-mesnil-stopping-ever-since-the-creation-of-the/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/dandies-who-as-you-know-scorn-all-emotions-as-being-beneath-them-and/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/for-as-everyone-knows-in-libertinism-bad-taste-is-a-potent-force-a/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/the-devil-teaches-women-what-they-are-or-they-would-teach-it-to-the/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/he-was-terrified-by-the-sublime-horror-of-it-for-intensity-of-feeling/)

[Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/)

> [“Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly/hatred-needs-scorn-scorn-is-hatred-s-nectar/)

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