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• The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

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  Evil, Progress, Fables

  "The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.

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• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Boredom, Suffering

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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.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Wind Blowing, Ears

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• a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

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  Perfect, Soul, Pieces

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

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  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

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  Reality, Earth, Power Of Love

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• The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

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  Education, Thinking, Mind

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• inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

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  Practice, Sublime, Inventiveness

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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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  Sleep, Twenties, Interest In Life

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• There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

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  Country, Sea, Ships

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• Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

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  Life, Sides, Thread

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• Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

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  Irrevocable, Happens

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• O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

  Madame de Stael

  Sweet, Memories, Joy

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• Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

  Madame de Stael

  Sunshine, Genius, Perfume

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

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• Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

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  Genius, Contemplation, Form

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• If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

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  Men, League, Genius

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• If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

  Madame de Stael

  Views, Imagination, Succeed

  "The Influence of Literature upon Society". Book by Madame de Stael, 1800.

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• The most careful reasoning characters are very often the most easily abashed.

  Madame de Stael

  Character, Careful, Reasoning

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• The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

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  Sight, Architecture, Approach

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

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• The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

  Madame de Stael

  Civilization, Important Events, History

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• women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

  Madame de Stael

  Women, Ends, Existence

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• The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

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  Politics, Morality, Pursuit

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• Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

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  Doe, Please, Assured

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• Strangers are contemporary posterity.
  [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

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  Stranger, Contemporary, Posterity

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• Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

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  Morning, Brilliant, Glory

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