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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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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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Threads
Right
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Life
Tapestry
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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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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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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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It is not enough to forgive one must forget.
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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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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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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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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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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
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Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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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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[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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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.
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