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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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Literary Critic
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University Teacher
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Spirit
Landscape

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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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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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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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