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Quote 3122
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 3120
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 3118
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 3114
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 3100
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 3079
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the childShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 3077
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then theeby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 3017
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2980
We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over againby: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2951
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begunShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2948
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scarShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2927
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to itby: John LockeShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2900
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreamsShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2799
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones neverShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2793
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelicShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2746
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sectby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2690
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itselfShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2678
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearancesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2658
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes furtherShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2615
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2288
Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; no keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in lifeby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2063
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything elseShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2046
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little timeby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2034
The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and runby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 2024
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passionby: AntisthenesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1932
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in loveby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1912
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1813
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a womanby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1780
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its objectby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1749
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.”by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1743
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitudeby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1734
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despairby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1721
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senileShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1694
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidenceShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1566
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romanceShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1509
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your lifeby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1433
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1401
Love is my religion - I could die for itby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1398
Love in its essence is spiritual fireShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1374
He is not a lover who does not love foreverby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1370
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 wholeShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1362
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.by: Thomas FullerShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1359
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.by: Ferdinand FochShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1262
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1254
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?Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1162
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.by: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1127
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operationby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1102
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 soulby: Samuel UllmannShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1098
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may beShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1082
Man is only great when he acts from passionShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 1030
Faith is a passionate intuitionShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 958
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 spiritShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 942
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 940
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passionsby: Alfred TennysonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 879
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 timeby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 874
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beautyShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 821
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 loveShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 814
All mankind love a loverShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 812
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great thingsby: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 811
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 795
Thou art to me a delicious tormentShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 792
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns lowShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 791
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 790
The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong wayby: PlatonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 789
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desiredby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 780
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 768
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age foreverShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 766
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shamelessShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 764
There is no remedy for love but to love moreShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 753
Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundingsShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 748
In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimplesfrom JapanShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 745
My love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 731
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an ageby: John DrydenShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 728
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportableShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 712
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden foreverby: Alfred TennysonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 710
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only endShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 632
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.by: PlatonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 628
I can resist everything except temptationShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 576
May you live all the days of your lifeby: Jonathan SwiftShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 545
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapesShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 500
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake onlyShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 497
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativityby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 493
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than prideby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 445
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasmShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 401
I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my lifeShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 400
We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 364
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its sparkShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 319
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 318
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.by: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 307
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.Showing Quotes on passion
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Quote 285
It is impossible to love and to be wiseby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 280
An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sexShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 267
Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with witShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 242
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strengthShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 241
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful springShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 195
They do not love that do not show their loveShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 184
Wild love, is there anything you cannot force upon the human heart.by: VergilShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 183
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attackShowing Quotes on passion
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Quote 180
The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on passion
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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success out of his life.by: Edward B. ButlerShowing Quotes on passion
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