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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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