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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Silence
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Nightfall
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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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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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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