“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.” YearsReasonWholeCoursesPleasureTalkingLoversIllInterviewsWearyEgotismWhole Year Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.” GivingMindBookReadingPleasureSeriousBook ReadingPastel Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“. . . 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.” PainLife IsDesireEvilEnjoyPleasureLosingExpectationsDistancePossessionThis LifeGood And EvilPerpetualPain And Pleasure Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne