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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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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Must
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Life
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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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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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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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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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