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.
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de LespinasseI love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinassenothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.
Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse