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I learn life from the poets.
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
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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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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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, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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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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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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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
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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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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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