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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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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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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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