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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.
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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Sanctity
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Perfume
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Sanity
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Men
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Bathe
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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