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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
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Literary Critic
Politician
Salonnière
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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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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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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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I learn life from the poets.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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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 Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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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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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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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.
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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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