“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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