Madame de Stael

France
22 Apr 1766 // 14 Jul 1817
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Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning , all fear of an end.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays