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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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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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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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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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