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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
Diarist
Literary Critic
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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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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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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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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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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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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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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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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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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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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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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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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
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