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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.
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 gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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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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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.
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And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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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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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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