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Extracts from Amiel’s Journal: Destiny (just before death)

By Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

APRIL 10TH, 1881 [he died May 11th].—What dupes we are of our own desires!… Destiny has two ways of crushing us—by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. But he who only wills what God wills escapes both catastrophes. “All things work together for his good.”

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