“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls who want everything to be prettified, even the horrible. In the name of philanthropy, imbecile criminologists… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Now, Mesnilgrand saw himself come to full maturity without the great military career that he had hoped for, his sword rusting in its scabbard,… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“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… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment… — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
![“Now, Mesnilgrand saw himself come to full maturity without the great military career that he had hoped for, his sword rusting in its scabbard, his feelings swelling up into the bitterest kind of rage. [...] An ingenious moralist, preoccupid by how illogical our destinies appear to be, once…” quote by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/83f/jules-barbey-d-aurevilly-26843_dissapointment_now-mesnilgrand-saw-himself-come-to-full_2278495.jpg)
