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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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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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Women
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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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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
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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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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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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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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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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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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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