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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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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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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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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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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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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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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We only understand that which already is within us.
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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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Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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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.
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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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Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
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