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Salonnire Inspirational Quotes (698)

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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
Gertrude Stein
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doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
Sophie Swetchine
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Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
George Sand
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Madame de Stael
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God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.
Margaret of Valois
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Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.
Gertrude Stein
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Gertrude Stein
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. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.
Gertrude Stein
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. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
Madame de Stael
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand
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Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
George Sand
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There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.
Margaret of Valois
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Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
Delphine de Girardin
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
Madame de Stael
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
Sophie Swetchine
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we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
George Sand
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
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Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.
Elizabeth Montagu
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Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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