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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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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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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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I learn life from the poets.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
Madame de Stael
