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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
Poetry
Apotheosis
Sentiment
Sentiments
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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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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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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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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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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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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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I learn life from the poets.
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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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Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
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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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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