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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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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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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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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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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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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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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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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