Salonni Re

🇺🇸Gertrude Stein

Literature

Modernism

1874–1946

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

Baron d'Holbach

Philosophy

atheism

1723–1789

"Jesus, to whom miracles cost nothing when every thing was arranged for performing them, did not risk himself by working them impromptu, or in the presence of those he judged acute enough to examine them."

🇫🇷George Sand

Literature

Romanticism

1804–1876

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

🇫🇷Julie de Lespinasse

Literature

Enlightenment

1732–1779

"You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul."

🇨🇭Suzanne Curchod

Literature

1737–1794

"How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed."

Hester Thrale

Education

1741–1821

"A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass."

🇺🇸Elizabeth Willing Powel

Politics

1743–1830

"The Power Broker and the King Maker: The Life of Elizabeth Willing Powel with Samantha Snyder , from the series Conversations at the Washington Library"

Bettina von Arnim

Literature

German Romanticism

1785–1859

"A work of art should express only that which elevates the soul and pleases it in a noble manner. The feeling of the artist should not overstep these limits; it is wrong to venture beyond."

🇺🇸Natalie Clifford Barney

Literature

Feminism

1876–1972

"The Temple of Friendship at ruevisconti.com"