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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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[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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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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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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