Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Born: November 2, 1808
Died: April 23, 1889 (aged 80)
Bio: Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a French novelist and short story writer. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural.
Known for:
- Les Diaboliques (1874)
- The Story Without a Name (1882)
- Dandyism
- The Bewitched (1852)







