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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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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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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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