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)
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël: Quotes about love
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“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”
Bk. 10, ch. 5
Corinne (1807)
“Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, fame, and love.”
Reflections on Suicide (Réflexions sur le suicide, 1813), Section 1
“Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.”
L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes.
A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions (De l'influence des passions, 1796), Section 1, ch. 4
“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime.
Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Sophie, ou les sentiments secrets, 1790), Act 2, sc. 8