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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
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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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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
Madame de Stael
When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
Madame de Stael
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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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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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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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 evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Madame de Stael
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Madame de Stael
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
Madame de Stael
All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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