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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
Enthusiasm
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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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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
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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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