“Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.”
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Henri Frédéric Amiel (September 27, 1821 in Geneva – May 11, 1881 in Geneva) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic. Amiel's ("Private Journal"), which, published after his death, obtained a European reputation. It was translated into English by British writer Mary Augusta Ward at the suggestion of academic Mark Pattison. Although modest in volume of output, Amiel's mind was of no inferior quality, and his Journal gained a sympathy that the author had failed to obtain in his life. In addition to the Journal, he produced several volumes of poetry and wrote studies on Erasmus, Madame de Stael and other writers. His extensive correspondence with Égérie, his muse name for Louise Wyder, was preserved and published in 2004.
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“Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.”
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“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”
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“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”
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“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.”
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“Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.”
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“Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.”
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“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
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“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
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“Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.”
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“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”
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