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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Romantic
Deeply
Direction
Loving
Makes
Others
Love
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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