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Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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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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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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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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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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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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