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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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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Literary Critic
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Salonnière
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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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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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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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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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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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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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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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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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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
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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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Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.
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The universe is in France outside it, there is nothing.
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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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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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 education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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