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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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