Madame de Stael Quotes - Page 2

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• It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.

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  Forgiving, Forget, Enough

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• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

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  Teaching, Understanding

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• It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

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  Age, Difficult, Grows

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• Life, for me, is living among my friends.

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  Friends, My Friends

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• The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

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  Music, Memories, Regret

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• Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

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  Disappointment, Long, And Love

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• The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

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  Love, Heart, Mind

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• A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life.

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  Voyages, Companionship, Pleasure

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• The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.

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  Different, World, Way

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• When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

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  Men, Weakness, Hardness

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

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• Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

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  Character, May, Strongest

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• The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Forgiving

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• Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

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  Sight, Opposites, Afterlife

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

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  Men, Feminism, Talent

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

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• Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

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  Religious, Heart, Feelings

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

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• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

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  Broken Heart, Matter, Improbable

  Madame de Stael's letter to Juliette Recamier (October 5, 1810) as quoted in J. Christopher Herold "Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael" (p. 401), 1958.

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• Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

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  Learning, Mind, Progress

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

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• The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends.

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  Men

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• Who understands much, forgives much.

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  Forgiveness, Forgiving

  "All about Almodovar", www.theguardian.com. August 25, 1999.

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• Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.

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  Mail, Exile, Tombs

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• Prayer is the life of the soul.

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  Prayer, Soul

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• Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

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  Angel, Love Is, Eternity

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• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

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  Two, Diversity, Mind

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• The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

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  Men, Order, Want

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• intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

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  Intelligence, Sin, Intellect

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