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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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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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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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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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