“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”
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“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things”
“All mankind love a lover”
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love ”
“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty ”
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time ”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions ”
“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ”
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit ”
“Faith is a passionate intuition”
“Man is only great when he acts from passion”
“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be”
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul”
“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation”
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ”
“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?”
“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.”
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. ”
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole”