Kırmızı Perde Quotes

“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain

“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'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain

“Hatred needs scorn. Scorn is hatred's nectar!”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain

“For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain

“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain

“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, The Crimson Curtain