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Henri-Frédéric Amiel - I love everything, and detest...

I love everything, and detest one thing only - the hopeless imprisonment of my being within a single arbitrary form, even were it chosen by myself. Liberty for the inner man is then the strongest of my passions - perhaps my only passion. (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)

I love everything, and detest one thing only - the hopeless imprisonment of my being within a single arbitrary form, even were it chosen by myself. Liberty for the inner man is then the strongest of my passions - perhaps my only passion.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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