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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
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Literary Critic
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Salonnière
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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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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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When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
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And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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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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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to 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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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
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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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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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