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Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Quotes:

Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse quotes

Life: November 9, 1732 - May 23, 1776

Birthday: November 9

Death: May 23

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You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.

Topics: Relationship, Hate, Love You

quote if you can attain repose and calm believe that you have seized happiness jeanne julie eleonore de lespinasse Quotes

The logic of the heart is absurd

Topics: Heart, Logic, Absurd

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

Topics: Believe, Relaxation, Calm

You soothe my soul. You fill it with so tender a sentiment that it is sweet to live during the time that I see you.

Topics: Friendship, Sweet, Soul

I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.

Topics: Love, Despair, Excess

I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Topics: Hate, Self, Feelings, Circumspection

Oh! how many times we die before death!

Topics: Before Death, Dies

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

Topics: Giving, Feelings, Stronger

Oh! you shall see how well I know how to love! I can only love; I know only how to love! With moderate faculties, we can yet do much when we center them on a single object.

Topics: How To Love, Faculty, Wells

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

Topics: Friends, Soul, Suffering

Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.

Topics: Oil, Gossip, Calumny

Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?

Topics: Soul, Mind, Doe, Shrinks

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

Topics: Reading, Feels

Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.

Topics: Tragedy, Needs, How To Love

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