Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Life
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Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
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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.
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Analysis kills spontaneity.
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I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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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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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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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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Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.
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