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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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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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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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[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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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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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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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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