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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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
Prayer
Soul
Life
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Never, never have I been loved as I love others!
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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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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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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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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.
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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 perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.
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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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