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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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True humility is contentment.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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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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