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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

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
Alone
Society
Form
Develops
Contemplation
Wit
Forms
Genius

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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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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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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 must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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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 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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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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 mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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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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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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