“Sans doute, c’est par l’amour que l’éternité peut être comprise; il confond toutes les notions du temps; il efface les idées de commencement et de fin; on croit avoir toujours aimé l’objet qu’on aime; tant il est difficile de concevoir qu’on ait pu vivre sans lui!”

“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it” – Translated by Isabel Hill

– Germaine de Staël

Quote Number: 735

French Source: de Staël, Germaine. Corinne; ou, L’Italie: Tome Second. Paris: Lendentu. Paris: H. Nicolle. 1819. Pg. 88. Online here
English Source: de Staël, Germaine. Corinna, Or Italy. Translated by Isabel Hill. London: Richard Bentley. 1847. Pg. 134. Online here

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