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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
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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 at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
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I learn life from the poets.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
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Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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