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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
Politics
Religion
Pursuit
Morality
Poetry
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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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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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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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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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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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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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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