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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
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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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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 mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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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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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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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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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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