“ (it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things. ”
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.
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
The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.
