Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 11

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• To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Morning, Health, Rose

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• [T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Analysis, Scientific Method

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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

  Women, Knowing, Evil

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Thinking, Mountain, Kind

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