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Delphine de Girardin: To love the...

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To love the one who loves you,
To admire the one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury of Women's Quotes, by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
-- Delphine de Girardin, ( 1804-1855), French novelist, poet; She was one of the most important romantic novelist of the 19th century.


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