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Acceptance
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"Accept life, and you must accept regret."
-Henri Frederic Amiel, 1876
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Analysis, to Analyze
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Common Sense
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Difficulty
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"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
-Henri Frederic Amiel, The Private Journal of Henri Frederic Amiel
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Passion
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Past, the
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past—a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Stubbornness
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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Women
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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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.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Books by and about Henri Frederic Amiel
