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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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 wasted is a theft from God.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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