Speech happens to not be his language.
MADAME DE STAEL
MADAME DE STAEL
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de StaelMadame de Stael
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Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
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Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.
Florence PughFlorence Pugh It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
George EliotGeorge Eliot God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno “Duty, Honor, Country” – those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
Douglas MacArthurDouglas MacArthur I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.
Florence PughFlorence Pugh I want to be a champion.
Kevin DurantKevin Durant If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.
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