“There is only one true aristocracy… and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.”
"Will, Freedom”
Elements of Physiology (1875)
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"The Over-Sky Sign," p. 5
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“We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”
Jean Fritz (1915–2017) American children's writer
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
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