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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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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The best path through life is the highway.
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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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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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
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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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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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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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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 thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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