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“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)

“Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Контексте: The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

“The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The Influence of Literature upon Society (De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les istitutions sociales, 1800) , Pt. 2, ch. 4
Контексте: The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. Either morality is a fable, or the more enlightened we are, the more attached to it we become.

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 8, ch. 2, as translated by Isabel Hill (1833)
Variant translation: It is certainly through love that eternity can be understood; it confuses all thoughts about time; it destroys the ideas of beginning and end; one thinks one has always been in love with the person one loves, so difficult is it to conceive that one could live without him.
As translated by Sylvia Raphael (1998)
Corinne (1807)

“Men do not change; they unmask themselves.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Quoted in Invasion of the Party Snatchers : How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP (2008) by Victor Gold

“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 8, ch. 2
Corinne (1807)

“Be happy, but be so by piety.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 20, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)

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

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Delphine

Un homme doit savoir braver l'opinion; une femme s'y soumettre.
Delphine (1802), epigraph
The epigraph is taken from the writings of de Staël's mother, Suzanne Necker.

“The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

La recherche de la vérité est la plus noble des occupations, et sa publication un devoir.
Pt. 4, ch. 2
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)

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

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Pt. 4, ch. 10
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)

“Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Quoted in A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1880) collected and translated by J. D. Finod, p. 138

“When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 4, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Letter to Juliette Récamier (October 5, 1810), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 401

“Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 10, ch. 5
Corinne (1807)

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

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Pt. 2, ch. 8
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)

“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 10, ch. 5
Corinne (1807)

“Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Corinne

Bk. 1, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)

“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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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Добавить примечание: (fr) La voix de la conscience est si délicate, qu'il est facile d'étouffer; mais elle est si pure, qu'il est impossible de la méconnaître.
Источник: De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813), Pt. 3, ch. 13

“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.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël книга Delphine

Delphine (1802), Preface

“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”

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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Reflections on Suicide (Réflexions sur le suicide, 1813), Section 1