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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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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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Hope is only the love of life.
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