Henri-Frédéric Amiel: Amiel`s Journal

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

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Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Learn to [...] be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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