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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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