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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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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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