Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Quotes

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

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Peace, Believe, Relaxation

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

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Love, Despair, Excess

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• Oh! how many times we die before death!

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Before Death, Dies

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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.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Love, Relationship, Hate

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

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  Giving, Feelings, Stronger

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• The logic of the heart is absurd

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  Sweet Love, Heart, Logic

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

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Friends, Soul, Suffering

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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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  Friendship, Sweet, Soul

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

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Reading, Feels

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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.

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  How To Love, Faculty, Wells

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

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Oil, Gossip, Calumny

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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

  Tragedy, Needs, How To Love

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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?

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Soul, Mind, Doe

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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

  Hate, Self, Feelings

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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

  Madness, Abandonment, Impulse

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