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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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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 insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
* * * * * Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.  
February 3, 1857.--The phantasmagoria of the soul cradles and soothes me as though I were an Indian yoghi, and everything, even my own life, becomes to me smoke, shadow, vapor, and illusion. I hold so lightly to all phenomena that they end by passing over me like gleams over a landscape, and are gone without leaving any impression. Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. It is by...   Amiel, Henri Frederic

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