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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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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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