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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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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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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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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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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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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