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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
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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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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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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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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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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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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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I learn life from the poets.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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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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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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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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