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Nothing recalls the past like music.
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
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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 sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'
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When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue.
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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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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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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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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[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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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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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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