We are only vulnerable and ridiculous through our pretensions.
—Delphine de Girardin
Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect.
—Delphine de Girardin
Topics: Selfishness
There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it.
—Delphine de Girardin
Topics: Women
To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you, in a word, to be the idol of one’s idol, is exceeding the limit of human joy; it is stealing fire from heaven.
—Delphine de Girardin
Topics: Love
Innocence is ignorance.
—Delphine de Girardin
Topics: Innocence
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
—Delphine de Girardin
Topics: Intuition
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