Do not chastise me in my mother, you chastise my mother because of me.—I commend to you the souls of my father and Mariette.—Give me each day strength to perform the present duty and thus to become a hero and a saint.
XXXVII
A chapter on the indestructible, eternal, universal and ingenious human ferocity. Of the love of blood, of the intoxication of blood, of the intoxication of crowds. Of the intoxication of the executed criminal (Damiens).
XXXIX
I have always been astonished that women are allowed to enter church. What conversation can they have with God?
The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, whim) is one of the seductive forms of the devil.
XL
Woman cannot separate the soul from the body. She is simple, like the animals.—A satirist would say it is because she has only a body.
XLII
Veuillot is so coarse and such an enemy of the arts that one would think all the democracy of the world was harbored in his breast.