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“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Pt. 4, ch. 10
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)

“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Corinne

Bk. 10, ch. 5
Corinne (1807)

“It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël book Delphine

Delphine (1802), Preface

“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

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