We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. - Germaine de Staël

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Germaine de Staël

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About Germaine de Staël

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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Alternative Names: Madame de Staël • Madame Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël • Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker • Mme de Staël • Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël • Anne-Louise-Germaine, Mme de Staël-Holstein • Baroness de Staël-Holstein Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker • Germaine de Staël-Holstein • Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein • Anne-Louise Germaine Necker

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If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. - Germaine de Staël

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