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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

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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Morality
Poetry
Politics
Religion

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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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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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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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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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Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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