Oh! how many times we die before death!

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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

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

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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 t…

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse

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

The logic of the heart is absurd

- 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

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.

- Jeanne Julie Eleonore De Lespinasse