Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse quotes
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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.”
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“The logic of the heart is absurd”
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“If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.”
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“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.”
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“I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.”
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“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.”
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“Oh! how many times we die before death!”
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“nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.”
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“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.”
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“none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.”
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“Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.”
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“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?”
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“I read what I feel, and not what I see.”
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“Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.”
-- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
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