💬 Quotes
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"Love is a passion so powerful that it defies reason, morality, and the fear of ruin, reducing all other duties to mere shadows."
— Manon Lescautby Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles
"I was guilty of a blind weakness, I confess; but my heart was pure, and I loved her to a degree that bordered on idolatry."
— Manon Lescautby Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles
"Charms such as hers were capable of moving the most insensate hearts. It was impossible to see her without loving her."
— Manon Lescautby Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles
"Fickle as she was, she loved me tenderly, and my presence alone could inspire her with sentiments of virtue and sincerity."
— Manon Lescautby Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles
"Fate seemed to take pleasure in persecuting us, leading us from one disaster to another despite our brief moments of happiness."
— Manon Lescautby Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles
"I learned at my own expense that a man given over to his passions is entirely incapable of governing his own destiny."
— Manon Lescautby Antoine François Prévost D'Exiles
"The transport of those ecstatic moments, when all the powers of life are called forth and concentrated into that supreme point of bliss, are too high-wrought for description."
— Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John Cleland
"Nature is always a good housewife, and provides for her ends by methods far more simple and effectual than all the contrivances of art."
— Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John Cleland
"Love, true love, was at the bottom of it all; and where that is, all the little faults and whimsicalities of passion disappear like mists before the sun."
— Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John Cleland
"My life, till now, had been a scene of absolute ignorance and innocence, or rather stupidity."
— Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John Cleland
"Pleasure is the business of life, and it is sheer folly to sacrifice the present enjoyment to the empty name of virtue."
— Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John Cleland
"Thus was I planted, in a happy soil, where I soon shot up into a luxuriant growth, and promised the most plentiful harvest."
— Memoirs of Fanny Hillby John Cleland
"Pauvre petit curé de Cucugnan! Il ne dormait plus, il ne mangeait plus, il se consumait de chagrin en pensant que son troupeau était en train de se perdre."
— Les Lettres de mon moulin d'Alphonse Daudetby lePetitLitteraire,
"C'est l'histoire de maître Cornille et de son moulin, une histoire triste et touchante du vieux temps."
— Les Lettres de mon moulin d'Alphonse Daudetby lePetitLitteraire,
"Ah! les braves gens! Comme ils m'écoutaient! Et comme ils se sentaient heureux de retrouver un peu de leur cher pays dans mes histoires!"
— Les Lettres de mon moulin d'Alphonse Daudetby lePetitLitteraire,
"Le soleil se couchait derrière les montagnes, inondant la plaine d'une lumière dorée et mélancolique, propice aux légendes et aux souvenirs."
— Les Lettres de mon moulin d'Alphonse Daudetby lePetitLitteraire,
"All for one, one for all—that was our oath, and by heaven, we have kept it through blood and tears."
— Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
— The Magic of Believingby Claude M. Bristol