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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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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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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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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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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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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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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