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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

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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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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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.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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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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True humility is contentment.
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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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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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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