Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind. - Germaine de Staël
" "Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.
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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad, who determined literary tastes of Europe at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Anne-Louise-Germaine, Mme de Staël-Holstein
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Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker
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Germaine de Staël-Holstein
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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein
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Anne-Louise Germaine Necker
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The actual quotation is from a letter from Mme de Staël to Claude Hochet dated October 1, 1800: «Il faut choisir dans la vie entre l’ennui et le tourment : je donne l’un et l’hiver l’autre» (Germaine de Staël, Correspondance générale. Tome IV. Première partie. Du directoire au Consulat. 1er décembre 1796-15 décembre 1800, texte établi et présenté par Béatrice W. Jasinski, Paris, Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1976, xii/337 p., p. 326).
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