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

“Elle savait que tout ce qui est supérieur s'élève de soi vers le grand et le be…”

“Night, which in Autumn seems to fall from the sky so suddenly, chilled us...”

“He had a reputation in society as a man with a lively wit, whose gaiety was ple…”

“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman…”