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Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!
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
Enthusiasm
Mysterious
Supreme
Poetry
Religion
Power
Heart
Encloses
Love
Heroism
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The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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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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[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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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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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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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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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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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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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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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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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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