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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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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Whatever
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
Madame de Stael
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
Madame de Stael
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
Madame de Stael
One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
Madame de Stael
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
Madame de Stael
Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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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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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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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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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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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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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
Madame de Stael
