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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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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Enthusiasm
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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