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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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
France
Outside
Universe
Nothing
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Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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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 more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
Madame de Stael
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
Madame de Stael
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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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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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
Madame de Stael
Prayer is the life of the soul.
Madame de Stael
[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.
Madame de Stael
Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
Madame de Stael
Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
Madame de Stael
