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 men as there are beads on her aunt's rosary. No happy medium! Either a nun or a monster! God's bosom or sensual passions! It would, perhaps, be better to put her in a convent, since we put hysterical women in the Saltpetriere! She does not know vice, she invents it!" That was ten years ago before the day our story begins and... Raoule was not a nun.
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
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
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. - Rachilde
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.
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
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. …
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
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.
All monsters have their fits of depression. - Rachilde
All monsters have their fits of depression.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
I want a dress the color of suffering - Rachilde
I want a dress the color of suffering
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