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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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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
Madame de Stael
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.
Madame de Stael
It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
Madame de Stael
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
Madame de Stael
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.
Madame de Stael
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
Madame de Stael
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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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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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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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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I learn life from the poets.
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
Madame de Stael
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
Madame de Stael
Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
Madame de Stael
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Madame de Stael
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.
Madame de Stael
Whatever is natural admits of variety.
Madame de Stael
