Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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... effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern culture , and also a striking picture of the sufferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two volumes may certainly be ...
... effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern culture , and also a striking picture of the sufferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two volumes may certainly be ...
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... effects , by noise and effort . They have no instinct of contemplation , no sense of the pure cause , the fixed source of all movement , the principle of all effects , the center of all light , which does not need to spend itself in ...
... effects , by noise and effort . They have no instinct of contemplation , no sense of the pure cause , the fixed source of all movement , the principle of all effects , the center of all light , which does not need to spend itself in ...
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... effect of our imagination . For that which is on the brink of death already participates to some extent in eternity . A dying man seems to speak to us from beyond the tomb ; what he says has the effect upon us of a sentence , an oracle ...
... effect of our imagination . For that which is on the brink of death already participates to some extent in eternity . A dying man seems to speak to us from beyond the tomb ; what he says has the effect upon us of a sentence , an oracle ...
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