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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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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War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
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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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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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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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