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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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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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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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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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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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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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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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