Germaine De Stael
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(684 votes) The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(476 votes) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(329 votes) Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(320 votes) 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.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(317 votes) The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(316 votes) Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(312 votes) Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(307 votes) A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(303 votes) Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
(179 votes) That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Swiss, Author Quotes
(179 votes) Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Swiss, Author Quotes
(178 votes) When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Swiss, Author Quotes
(167 votes) Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
Germaine De Stael
Germaine De Stael
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