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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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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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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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