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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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Happens
Anything
Always
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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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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You do not reach the sublime by degrees the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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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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Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
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Music revives the recollections it would appease.
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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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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.
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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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Providence protects us in all the details of our lot.
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The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
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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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Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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