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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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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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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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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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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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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
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