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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.
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
Sure
Lost
Nothing
Life
Intact
Steadfast
Keeping
Memories
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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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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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