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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
Diarist
Literary Critic
Politician
Salonnière
Writer
Paris
France
Madame de Staël
Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Mme de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël
Anne-Louise-Germaine
Mme de Staël-Holstein
Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
Anne-Louise Germaine Necker
Germaine de Staël-Holstein
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein
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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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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.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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