Jules Barbey D'aurevilly said this quote

“ 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. ”

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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'aurevilly

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

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In 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

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The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly