Conversation as talent exists ...

Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art for which imagination and soul are certainly very welcome, but which can also provide its own secret remedies to compensate you for the absence of either or both, if you so desire.
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 Madame de Stael

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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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 Madame de Stael
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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 Madame de Stael
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.
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 Madame de Stael
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.
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 Madame de Stael
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.
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 Madame de Stael