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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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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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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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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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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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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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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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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