Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page 167
... dream , dreaming itself . We might say with Scarron : " Et je vis l'ombre d'un esprit Qui traçait l'ombre d'un système Avec l'ombre de l'ombre même . " This abolition of nature by natural science is logical , and it was , in fact ...
... dream , dreaming itself . We might say with Scarron : " Et je vis l'ombre d'un esprit Qui traçait l'ombre d'un système Avec l'ombre de l'ombre même . " This abolition of nature by natural science is logical , and it was , in fact ...
Page 253
... dream ! I was under an illusion and yet not under it ; I was playing a comedy to myself , deceiving my imagination without being able to deceive my consciousness . This power which dreams have of fusing incompatibles together , of ...
... dream ! I was under an illusion and yet not under it ; I was playing a comedy to myself , deceiving my imagination without being able to deceive my consciousness . This power which dreams have of fusing incompatibles together , of ...
Page 255
... dream of a dream . What delivers us from the palace of dreams is pain , per- sonal pain ; it is also the sense of obligation , or that which combines the two , the pain of sin ; and again it is love ; in short , the moral order . What ...
... dream of a dream . What delivers us from the palace of dreams is pain , per- sonal pain ; it is also the sense of obligation , or that which combines the two , the pain of sin ; and again it is love ; in short , the moral order . What ...
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