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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Charm
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Fate
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Genius
Henri Frederic Amiel

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
State
Henri Frederic Amiel

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It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Character
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
Order
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Communication
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Sacrifice
Henri Frederic Amiel

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Change
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Sympathy
Henri Frederic Amiel

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The best path through life is the highway.
Direction
Henri Frederic Amiel

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Passion
Henri Frederic Amiel

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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Soul
Henri Frederic Amiel

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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Respectability
Henri Frederic Amiel

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To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
Respectability
Henri Frederic Amiel

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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Happiness
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Uncertainty
Henri Frederic Amiel

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Relationships
Henri Frederic Amiel

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The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
Dress
Sir Hardy Amies

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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Churches
Kingsley Amis

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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
Obesity
Kingsley Amis

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
Peace
Martin Amis

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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
Arms Race
Martin Amis

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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Language
Marcellinus Ammianus

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Experience
Cleveland Amory

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun