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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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[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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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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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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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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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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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 world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before 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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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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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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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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