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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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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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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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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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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.]
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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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 mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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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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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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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