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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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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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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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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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