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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about literature, man

Those who consider weak the people mastered by their passions are like that crazy doctor who named a man to be fool just because he had seen him suffering of fever.

Quote by Ugo Foscolo about pasion, suffering, man, people

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Quote by Elizabeth Taylor about pasion

I am a contemplative, but not a passive one and I try to repress as much as I can my passions - pain, fear, lust, pleasure.

Quote by Liviu Ioan (lis) Stoiciu about weakness, pain, pleasure, fear

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely...

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt about age, olderness, youth, life