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