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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël on Mother's Day

1766–1817 France

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4 quotes

Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.

Corinne (1807)

Where we really love, we often dread more than we desire the solemn moment that exchanges hope for certainty.

Corinne (1807)

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.