Marie de Sevigne

When I step...

When I step...

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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It is sometimes...

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...

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. . .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,...

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We like so...

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...

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. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a...

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There is no...

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...

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The desire to...

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...

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True friendship is...

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...

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