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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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
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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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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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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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Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
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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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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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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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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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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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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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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