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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.

— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Delphine (1802)

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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

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

Corinne (1807)

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

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Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.

De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Corinne (1807)

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