Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 8

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• in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

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  Memories, Past, Grace

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• I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

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  Prayer, Desire, Christianity

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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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  Beautiful, Distance, Sublime

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

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• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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  Quality, Noble, Genius

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

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  Religious, Struggle, Hymns

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

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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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  Country, Art, Imagination

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• What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

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  What Is Love, Decay, Ifs

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• ... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

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  Profound, Mind, Admirer

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• Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.

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  Wine, Danger

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

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• All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.

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  Music, Gay, Pensive

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• Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

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  Sight, Venice, Firsts

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