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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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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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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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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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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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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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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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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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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Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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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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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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