Josephine de Beauharnais quotes
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“A letter is the portrait of the soul ...”
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“My garden is the most beautiful thing in the world.”
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“[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.”
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“[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.”
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“The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.”
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Source : Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.24, Courier Corporation
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“You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.”
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“There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.”
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“What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.”
Source : "Fictional character: Lindy". "Beastly", www.imdb.com. 2011.
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