387 – “Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”

–Alphonse Karr

Quote Number:  839

Source: Unsourced, but well attributed, with attributions going back as far as 1880. For example, it is found in:  De Finod, J; compiler, translator. A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness. D Appleton and Company: New York. 1880, pg 143. Online Here.

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