Quotes by Madame de Staël

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By a strange contrast, the arts, which teach us to savor life, make us careless of death...

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All that man has made greater is due to the painful sense of his unfulfilled destiny...

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Envy may be tolerated when it springs from admiration awakened by talent...but is there any greater misfortune than to live where superiority arouses envy and not enthusiasm?