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Biography - Madame de Staël:

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, née Necker, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and political theorist.
Born: 1766 - Died: 1817
Place of birth: France
France

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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Translation

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French
L'amour est l'emblème de l'éternité. Il brouille toute notion de temps, efface tout souvenir d'un début, annule toute peur d'une fin.

German
Die Liebe ist ein Symbol der Ewigkeit. Es löscht jegliches Gefühl für Zeit und zerstört alle Erinnerungen an Anfang und aller Furcht vor einem Ende.




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Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.





Love, and do what you will.











Quotes for: time


Quotes

Quotes about time:


In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.





Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





Time is a great master; it regulates things well.





It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.











Quotes for: eternity


Quotes

Quotes about eternity:


It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.





Be humanity evermore our goal.





Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.





As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.





If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.











Quotes for: fear


Quotes

Quotes about fear:


I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.





Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.





To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.





Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.





Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.





Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.











Quotes

Quotes for: Forgetting


Don't forget to love yourself.





The thought of death betrays us, for it makes us forget to live.





Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.





It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.





Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.





Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.











Quotes

Madame de Staël also said...


All that is natural is varied.












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