A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

- Rachilde

I want a dress the color of suffering

- Rachilde

It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library, to know, to study. …

- Rachilde

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that pro…

- Rachilde

I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that…

- Rachilde

The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.

- Rachilde

A very special case. A few years more, and that pretty creature who you love too much, I think, will, without ever loving them, have known as many me…

- Rachilde

All monsters have their fits of depression.

- Rachilde

No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an in…

- Rachilde