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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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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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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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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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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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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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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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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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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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