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Julie de Lespinasse
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“Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains.”
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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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“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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“... nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.”
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“Oh! how many times we die before death!”
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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.”
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“... I read what I feel, and not what I see.”
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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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“... the logic of the heart is absurd.”
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“Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don't need to be loved as I know how to love.”
Julie de Lespinasse, French letterwriter
(1732 - 1776)