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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.... (more Madame de Stael quotes)
| Madame de Stael by Maria Fairweather | |
| Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael by J. Christopher Herold | |
| The passionate exiles;: Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier (Biography index reprint series) by Maurice Levaillant |
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