Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Quote

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.


Letter to Claude Hochet (Summer 1800), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 223


One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.