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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
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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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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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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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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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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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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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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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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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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I learn life from the poets.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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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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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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