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Salonnire Inspirational Quotes (698)

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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
Sophie Swetchine
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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
Madame de Stael
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Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
Madame de Stael
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Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
George Sand
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
Sophie Swetchine
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
Gertrude Stein
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
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It is never permissible to say, I say.
Suzanne Curchod
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Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
George Sand
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
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The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
George Sand
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
Madame de Stael
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Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
Gertrude Stein
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If I had a lover who wanted to hear from me every day, I would break with him.
Madame de La Fayette
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A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.
Margaret of Valois
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
Sophie Swetchine
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Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur.
Louise Colet
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