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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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
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Men
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There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
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.]
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One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.
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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.
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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
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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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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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The egotism of woman is always for two.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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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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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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