Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Quote

Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane.


The Universal Magazine, "On the Moravian Mode of Worship by Madame De Stael", April, 1814


Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests ...

Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests ...

Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests ...

Sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests ...