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women have no existence except in love the history of their life begins and ends with love!
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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Existence
History
Ends
Women
Love
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there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.
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Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.
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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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Be happy, but be happy through piety.
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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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Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.
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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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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.
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The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.
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All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.
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Love is the history of a woman's life it is an episode in man's. [Fr., L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.]
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The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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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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