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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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Who understands much, forgives much.
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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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