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In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.
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The world is the work of a single thought, expressed in a thousand different ways.
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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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Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
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In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
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The pleasures of thought are remedies for the wounds of the heart.
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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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Born:
April 22, 1766
Died:
July 14, 1817
(aged 51)
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