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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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Better
Impassioned
Never
Indifferent
Indifference
Souls
Return
Another
Part
Soul

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