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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
Inequality
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Rise
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Woman
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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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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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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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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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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