Rachilde famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All monsters have their fits of depression.
-- Rachilde

#Monsters #Fit
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.
-- Rachilde

#Passion #Aunt #Men
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 instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.
-- Rachilde

#Heart #Sacrifice #Echoes
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. But I have had no passion, I have not written my own book yet! I always found myself alone when we were two. One is not weak when one remains master of one's self in the midst of the most stupefying pleasures.
-- Rachilde

#Book #Passion #Self
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 my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible...
-- Rachilde

#Lust #Brain #Desire
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.
-- Rachilde

#Lasts #Peppers #Stew
The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasÃ© eyes.
-- Rachilde

#Eye #Trying #Lasts
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 proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?
-- Rachilde

#Pride #Men #Thinking
I want a dress the color of suffering
-- Rachilde

#Color #Suffering #Want

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
But I wonder if there is a place I fit in?
I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

Rachilde famous quotes

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