Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: beauty
For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: decadence decadents
For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: love devil god paris fools
They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: life death atheism decadence dissolution
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.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: astonishment
Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: love pleasure lust
Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyIn Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: success silence cynicism storytelling paris flattering
I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
Jules Barbey d'AurevillyStichwörter: french foolishness respect remorse
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