Where there is love, there is a possibility of violence but it's not that love is connected to violence but there's a possibility.
Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.
Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.
There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.
