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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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Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?
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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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It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.
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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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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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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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Who understands much, forgives much.
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Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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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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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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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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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
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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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