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The best path through life is the highway.
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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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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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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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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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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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Hope is only the love of life.
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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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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