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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.
Madame de Stael
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Madame de Stael
Age: 51 †
Born: 1766
Born: April 22
Died: 1817
Died: July 14
Correspondent
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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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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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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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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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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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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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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 mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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