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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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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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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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