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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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Social
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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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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.
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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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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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Life resembles Gobelin tapestry you do not see the canvass on the right side but when you turn it, the threads are visible.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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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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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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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
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