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“She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.”

Women Beauty Haughty

Book:Le bonheur dans le crime

Source: Le bonheur dans le crime

“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.”

Beauty Ugliness

Book:Les Diaboliques

Source: Les Diaboliques

“(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.”

Book:The Crimson Curtain

Source: The Crimson Curtain

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