What did Sophie Swetchine mean by: My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia Copy
+ He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity. Read explanation Author, January 3, 2024January 15, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, Charity, Generosity, Selflessness, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it. Author, January 3, 2024January 2, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, Ambition, Passion, Perseverance, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love. Author, January 3, 2024January 2, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, Fear, Love, Perception, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it. Author, January 3, 2024January 2, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, Authenticity, Detachment, Existence, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. Author, January 3, 2024January 2, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, Freedom, Limitations, Perception, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
What is resignation? It is putting God between one’s self and one’s grief. Author, January 3, 2024January 2, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, God, Grief, Resignation, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty. Author, January 3, 2024January 2, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, Potential, Progress, Youth, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men. Author, January 3, 2024January 2, 2025, Sophie Swetchine, Honesty, Men, Saints, 0 Sophie Swetchine Writer · Russia
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
