If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
—Julie de Lespinasse
Topics: Relaxation
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.
—Julie de Lespinasse
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
—Julie de Lespinasse
Topics: Hate, Hatred
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