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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is 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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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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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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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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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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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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