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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.

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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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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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Of all human sentiments, enthusiasm creates the most happiness it is the only sentiment in fact which gives real happiness, the only sentiment which can help us to bear our human destiny in any situation in which we may find ourselves.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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