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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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
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Inventiveness
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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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.
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I learn life from the poets.
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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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Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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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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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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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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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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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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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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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
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Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
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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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