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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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