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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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
Apotheosis
Sentiment
Sentiments
Poetry
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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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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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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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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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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