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Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel
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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or wellbred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

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Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

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Woman is the salvation or destruction of the family. She carries its destinies in the folds of her mantle.

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Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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Jealousy is a terrible thing. It resembles love, only it is precisely love's contrary. Instead of wishing for the welfare of the object loved, it desires the dependence of that object upon itself, and its own triumph.

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It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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