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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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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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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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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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