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15 Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Quotes

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael presents a grand, poetic view of love that bends time.

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael quotes

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

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

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

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  4. To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

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  5. Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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

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  7. 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.

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  8. The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

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  9. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

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  10. Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.

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  11. Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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  12. Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

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  13. The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

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  14. Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

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  15. The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

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