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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
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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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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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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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
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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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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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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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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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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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