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Life & Wisdom Quote by Ninon de L'Enclos

"Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it"

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A new sun rises, and suddenly the world turns accomplice. Ninon de L'Enclos isn’t describing weather; she’s staging desire as a total change in perception, the way passion rewires attention until reality feels handpicked. The line runs on with “everything” repeated like a drumbeat, not because she lacks restraint but because excess is the point: love as saturation, the mind flooded with meaning. It’s a seduction of language as much as of a lover, making the speaker’s inner state sound like an objective renaissance.

The subtext is slyly self-aware. When “everything seems to speak,” the key word is seems: she’s admitting this animation is projection, a delicious misreading of the world that she chooses to indulge. That choice matters. De L’Enclos, famed in 17th-century Paris for refusing convent walls and insisting on intellectual and erotic autonomy, writes passion not as a trap but as a lens she can pick up and set down. The invitation to “cherish it” is less a moral command than a private permission slip: feel this fully, let it make art out of the ordinary.

Context sharpens the intent. In a culture that prized decorum, especially for women, she frames desire as vitality and speech - a cosmos that validates her longing rather than condemning it. It’s not piety, it’s radiance; not romantic destiny, but the exhilarating moment when the self becomes the center of its own sunrise.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
L'Enclos, Ninon de. (2026, January 15). Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-a-new-sun-rises-for-me-everything-lives-93943/

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L'Enclos, Ninon de. "Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-a-new-sun-rises-for-me-everything-lives-93943/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-a-new-sun-rises-for-me-everything-lives-93943/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Ninon de L'Enclos (January 10, 1620 - October 17, 1705) was a Author from France.

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