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WRITERS > diarist > Marie de Sevigne
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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 are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
Source: 22 Sep 1680, Letters of Madame de Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends, 1811.
-- Marie de Sevigne, (Feb 5 1626-1696), French diarist; She was a prolific correspondent whose 1700 letters to her daughter reflected the social history of the reign of Louis XIV.