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Life alone can rekindle life.
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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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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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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