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We only understand that which already is within us.
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
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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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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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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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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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by 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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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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