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Quotes from Delphine — Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

1766–1817 France

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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Delphine (1802)

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.

Delphine (1802)

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