Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 4

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• The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

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  Feelings, Religion, Suits

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• The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

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  France, Universe

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• [On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

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  Witty, Italian, May

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

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  Life, Encouragement, Insightful

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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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  Character, Long, Left

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• Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

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  Men, Men And Women, Episodes

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• The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

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  Women, People, Want

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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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  Heartbreak, Soul, Unhappy

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• Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

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  Russia, Race, Civilization

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• The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.

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  Mind, Stories, Faces

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• The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

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  Women, Writing, Mere

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• Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

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  And Love, Morality, Mediators

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• Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

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  Heart, Heroism, Enthusiasm

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• Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

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  Atheism, Selfishness, Baseness

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

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  Yoke, Bows, Rebellious

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• I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

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  Children, Echoes, Voice

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• Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

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  Action

  "Germany". Book by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Part I, Chapter VIII; Reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922), p. 787-90, 1813.

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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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  Life, Giving, Inspire

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• There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

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  Class, Two, People

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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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  Flower, Blood, Years

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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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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  Education, Spring, Research

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• The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

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  Beautiful, Memories, Events

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• It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.

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  Real, Self, Feelings

  "Delphine". Book by Madame de Stael, 1802.

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• Never, never have I been loved as I love others!

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• When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

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  Enthusiasm, Undone, Money And Power

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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