Before Their Death Quotes by Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.
• Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.
• Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.
• For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep…
• Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn,…
• They had...finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the…
• We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal,…
• The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and…
• Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement…

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