Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

– Natalie Clifford Barney

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

– Pascal

The highest problem of art is to produce by appearance the illusion of higher reality.

– Goethe

…when he assembles a Gomorrah of inscrutable and depraved young girls, when he denounces an entente, a collectivity, a frenzy of bad angels…

– Colette