“How many ways does the heart take, how many reasons does it invent for itself, in order to arrive at what it wants!” LoveHeartAmoreThe Heart Wants What It Wants Book:La dame aux camélias Source: La dame aux camélias
“To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which has had no experience of attack, is to enter an unfortified and ungarrisoned city. Education, family feeling, the sense of duty, the family, are strong sentinels, but there are no sentinels so vigilant as not to be deceived by a girl of sixteen to whom nature, by the voice of the man she loves, gives the first counsels of love, all the more ardent because they seem so pure.” LoveHeartAmoreVirginityMystery Of LoveYoung GirlYoung Girls Book:La dame aux camélias Source: La dame aux camélias
“The more I reflected the more I said to myself that Marguerite had no reason for feigning a love which she did not feel, and I said to myself also that women have two ways of loving, one of which may arise from the other: they love with the heart or with the senses. [...] often a girl who has sought in marriage only the union of two pure affections receives the sudden revelation of physical love, that energetic conclusion of the purest impressions of the soul.” LoveHeartMarriageSensesGirls Book:La dame aux camélias Source: La dame aux camélias