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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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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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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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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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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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