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Eugénie de Guérin
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“How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away ... ?”
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“Yesterday, at Andillac, a little child went to heaven. If I were a little child I should like to follow it, but when one gets old, if one could help it, one would never die. Then it is that the threads that once attached us to earth become cables.”
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“Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain ...”
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“If and but, life's great impediments!”
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“One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.”
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“The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.”
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“A little time separates us from those who depart — a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!”
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“To lose a sister, to see her no more, live with her no more, my poor friend, oh! I can well believe you are desolate.”
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“... in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.”
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“Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.”
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“Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“We have traversed Paris in every direction, have taken daily walks of three and four hours, and that without my feeling any fatigue, without even remembering that I was walking. One has no body, one has only a soul to see and admire.”
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“Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.”
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“We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection ...”
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“Prejudices are so powerful!”
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“Distance only separates bodies, and that, alas! is quite enough.”
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“My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death — it is the only certainty.”
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“I am sixty years old, and yet I still find myself young.”
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“... I have a rage for being useful, for devoting myself to somebody or something.”
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“One fancies that what one loves cannot die.”
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“We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.”
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“O! if there were a continuance of days like this, the dead would arise out of their graves; the air has resurrection in it.”
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“Poets never die — nor friends either, I assure you, monsieur. Neither death nor silence in reality changes the soul.”
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“Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.”
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“To meet in imagination is pretty much like dining in imagination, and I like the one as little as the other. I intend, therefore, to come and see you in good earnest ...”
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“Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.”
Eugénie de Guérin, French writer, poet
(1805 - 1848)