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Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]

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
Episodes
Woman
History
Men
Hommes
Love
Dans
Life
Amour
Femme
Episode

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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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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 more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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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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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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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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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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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 greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
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