"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."

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Source : "Sophie, or The Secret Sentiments (Act 2)". Three-act drama by Madame de Stael, 1790.

Madame de Stael

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“Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.”
“I feel really qualified to write about Australia.”
“A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!”
“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
“No one can teach riding so well as a horse.”
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
“There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.”
“The doorway to success swings outward not inward.”

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