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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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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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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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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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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