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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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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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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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