Ferdinand Bardamu

“Our poor country lies in Roman decadence. Where there is no longer an aristocracy worthy of itself, a nation dies. Our Nobles are conceited fools and cowards. I no longer believe in anything nor have any views. From Louis-Philippe we shall proceed to the first trimmer who will take us up, but only in order to pass us on to another. For we are without fibre and moral energy. Money has killed everything”
― Arthur de Gobineau

“I am both wound and knife”—that is our absolute, our eternity.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist

“I always brought my own tensions to wherever I went”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

“The feminization of the academy has been a total disaster.”
― Amy L. Wax