Back then we were better-behaved than you young boys today; we were better instructed; so I start in my bestest French: "Mademoise...lle, from the first time I seen you, on the presbytery patio, I have been transported with the feeling of love for thee. I have already cut down poles, planks and straw in order for to build this house for you. The day we wed, the rats will come out of their ratholes and Sister Minnaine's goats will come bray at our door. So then, to assure our franchise of love, Mademoiselle, I ask your permission for a little fresh behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a p...sychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is..., so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for ...a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This has been illustrated copiously each day with photographs taken by the author, reproduced by means of cuts such as only French... newspaper-engravers can make, presumably etched on pieces of bread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that soci...ety is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sad...e. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers,... completely cut off from our habits and friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »