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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
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Paris
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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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Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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I learn life from the poets.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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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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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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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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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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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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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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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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[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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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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