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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad, who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
France Novelists Philosophers Also known as: De Staël, Anne Louise Germaine, Germaine de Staël, Madame De Stael, Madame De Staël, Madame de Stael, Madame de Staël
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The rules are only barriers to keep children from falling.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.
Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.
Corinne (1807)
Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
Corinne (1807)
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.
Corinne (1807)
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
Corinne (1807)
When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, all is defeated, except wealth and power.
Corinne; or Italy (1807)
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
Corinne (1807)
Let us then mingle everything, love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
Corinne (1807)
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike.
Where we really love, we often dread more than we desire the solemn moment that exchanges hope for certainty.
Corinne (1807)
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
Corinne (1807)
Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.
Corinne (1807)
Music revives the recollections it would appease.
Corinne (1807)
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
Corinne (1807)
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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