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Marie de Sevigne
When I step...
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
It is sometimes...
It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...
. . .the...
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least,...
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. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire,...
We like so...
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse...
. . ....
. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a...
There is no...
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view...
The desire to...
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...
True friendship is...
True friendship is never serene.
Source: 10 Sep 1671, Letters of Madame de Sevigne...
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. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes...
When I step...
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
It is sometimes...
It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...
. . .the...
. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least,...
. . ....
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire,...
We like so...
We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse...
. . ....
. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a...
There is no...
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view...
The desire to...
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...
True friendship is...
True friendship is never serene.
Source: 10 Sep 1671, Letters of Madame de Sevigne...
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. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes...