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The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
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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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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