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Quote by Margery Allingham
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, tha

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. – Margery Allingham

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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. – Margery Allingham

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. – Marquis De Sade

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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. – Georges Bataille

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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state? – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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