Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Life Quotes

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

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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
Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Superstition attaches to this life, and religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, and religion to virtue; it is from the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious, and it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these same desires that we are religious.

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

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Life often seems but a long shipwreck, of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love: the shores of our existence are strewn with them.

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The last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

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

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

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Twenty years in the life of a man is sometimes a severe lesson.

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[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

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Women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

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The face of a woman is always a help or a hindrance in her life story, whatever the strength or range of her mind, however important the things which concern her. Men have wanted it to be this way.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Love, that is but an episode in the life of man, is the entire story of the life of woman.

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There is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the debris are friendship, fame, and love.

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We find nothing good in life but what makes us forget it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that men can contract in this life.

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