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• Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Dream, Deliverance, Prison

  Journal Intime 3 December (1872)

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• Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Atheist, Real, Errors

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• How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Rain, Destiny, Tree

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• The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, May, Born

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• At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Self, Might

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Independent, Independence, Desire

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• Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Ideas, Feelings

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• Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Interesting, Attention, Worthy

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

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• Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Love Is

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Feelings, Mind

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

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sarcasm, Brave, Balls

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Jesus, Eye, Biblical

  Entry for October 01, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Ignorance, Class

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

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• Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Self, Soul, Tears

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• A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

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  Country, Cheating, Grief

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• I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.

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  Dream, Husband, Father

  Entry for May 03, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

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  Order, Needs, Great Person

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• We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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  Relationship, Peace, Psychics

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• How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

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  Earth, Littles, Slipping

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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

  Genius, Latent, Presumption

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• Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men

  Entry for October 01, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mother, Mysterious, Thee

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• Time wasted is a theft from God.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time, Wasting Time, Wasted Time

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