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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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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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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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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Hope is only the love of life.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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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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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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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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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
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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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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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