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Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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 more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
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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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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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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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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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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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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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