Henri-Frédéric Amiel quotes

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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate b ...
Action is only coarsened thought--thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything th ...
Mutual repect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose l ...
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past--a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatur ...
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and ...
These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them. I suppose it is becau ...
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