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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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As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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Prayer is the life of the soul.
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The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
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Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.
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O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
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Men do not change they unmask themselves.
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The thing that must be preserved in all situations whatever is the reputation of one's character.
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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 greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.
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I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.
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Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.
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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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Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.
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What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.
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