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Hope is only the love of life.

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
Hope
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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