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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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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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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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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.
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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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