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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696) was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th century literature.

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It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

Bad, Blind, Good, Ignorance, Knowing, World

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

Delay, Greater, Letters, Occasioned, Sorrow

If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?

Chocolate, Feeling, Feelings, Manage, Revive, Thinking

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

Altogether, Evaporating, Littles, Religion, Subtilized, Thicken

We like so much to talk of ourselves that we are never weary of those private interviews with a lover during the course of whole years, and for the same reason the devout like to spend much time with their confessor; it is the pleasure of talking of themselves, even though it be to talk ill.

Interviews, Same, Talk, Talking, Years

[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

Beard, Corrected, Fancy, Feminine, Pseudogeneric, Using

. . . the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

Common, Guess, Surprising, Today

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

Depends, Except, Light, Pain, Real, View

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

Past, Prospect, Spring, Superior, Winter

war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

Break Out, Peace, Talk, War

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

Consolation, Hope, Live, Would Be

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

Escape, Giving, Optimism, Patience, Takes, Time

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

Abuse, Like, Motive, Motives, People

Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.

Causes, Imagination, Sadness, Spring, Thinking

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

Common, Desire, Singular, Source, Way

Nothing is so capable of overturning a good intention as to show a distrust of it; to be suspected for an enemy, is often sufficient to make a person become one.

Become, Distrust, Enemy, Good Intentions, Overturning

I love you so passionately, that I hide a great part of my love, so as not to oppress you with it.

Dream, Love, Love You, Oppress, Part

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

Dear, Friendship, Unfortunate, Weep

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

Away, Coffee, Like, Pass, Passing Away, Taste

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

Beautiful, Beauty, Gift, God, Lovely

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