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I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

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Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

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We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

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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:
  1. Les Diaboliques (1874)
  2. The Story Without a Name (1882)
  3. Dandyism
  4. The Bewitched (1852)

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