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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
Universe
Nothing
France
Outside
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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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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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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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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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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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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