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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.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse's Popular Quotes

Oh! how many times we die before death!

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

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

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

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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 …

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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

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I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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?

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse