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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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