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Less Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
- The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing…
- 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…
- 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…
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