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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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