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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
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Literary Critic
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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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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, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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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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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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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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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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I learn life from the poets.
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Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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