“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Letter to Juliette Récamier (October 5, 1810), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 401

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