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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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