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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
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