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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 perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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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 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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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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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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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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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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Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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