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Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.
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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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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Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
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Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
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Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
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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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Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
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A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.
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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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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.
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Who understands much, forgives much.
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Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
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