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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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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
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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 egotism of woman is always for two.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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I learn life from the poets.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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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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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.
Madame de Stael
What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
Madame de Stael
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
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