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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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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
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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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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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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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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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