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• He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Perseverance, Missing, Self Improvement

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• There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Pride, Accepting

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• [I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Science, Class

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• One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Giving, Tears, May

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• I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

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  Character, Doubt, Shade

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• Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Justice, Criticism, Firsts

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• The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Artist, Simple

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• It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

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  Kindness, Giving, Joy

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  War, Mean, Resistance

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• True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Finals, Able

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• Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

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  Mind, Consciousness, Individual

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Opportunity, Night

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• Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sacrifice, Glowing, Suffering

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• Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

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  Passion, Sacrifice, Law

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• Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

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  Thinking, Mountain, Kind

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• Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time, Ideas, Illusion

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• To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Morning, Health, Rose

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• A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Blow

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

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  Nature, Greatness, Effort

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• It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Views, Judging, Giving

  Entry for July 20, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The only substance properly so called is the soul.

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  Soul, Substance

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• To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

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  Understanding, Firsts, Understood

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• A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it. Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, monster incomprehensible, raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.

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  Women, Knowing, Evil

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• [T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

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  Science, Analysis, Scientific Method

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• Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.

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  Doubt, Tyranny, Accomplices

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