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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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
Piety
Happiness
Happy
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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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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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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[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.
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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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Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?
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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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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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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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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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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 education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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