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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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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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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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Whatever is natural admits of variety.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man its publication is a duty.
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Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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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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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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