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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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
Taste
Literature
Society
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.
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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.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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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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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
Madame de Stael
Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
Madame de Stael
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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