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“Madame de Staël herself explained the mainspring of her character with the simple words: ‘My passion is my genius’. Just before her death, almost as if writing her own epitaph, she said to Chateaubriand: ‘I have always been the same; lively and sad. I have loved God, my father and liberty.”
― Madame de Stael
― Madame de Stael
“Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning ‘love’ in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition. Presently I came to realize that my conviction—the conviction that I could never be loved-was itself the basic state of human existence”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“I was there and I thought my faith was strong. Authoritarianism is lack of faith = Lack of faith is authoritarianism.”
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“Was it not the very modesty of their existence that lit their souls? What could a mother wish from a child, or a child from a mother, if not happiness?”
― A Useless Man: Selected Stories
― A Useless Man: Selected Stories
“Madame de Staël understood literature to include philosophy, history, social and political writing.”
― Madame de Stael
― Madame de Stael
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