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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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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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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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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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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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to 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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[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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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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