Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page 249
... object is to throw up entrenchments around a prejudice , and not to discover the truth . They accumulate that which darkens rather than that which enlightens . They are descended , all of them , from the Catholic procedure , which ...
... object is to throw up entrenchments around a prejudice , and not to discover the truth . They accumulate that which darkens rather than that which enlightens . They are descended , all of them , from the Catholic procedure , which ...
Page 313
... object ; his object is style . A fine passage is ten times more precious in his eyes than the discovery of a fact or the rectification of a date . And on this point I am very much with him , for a beautiful piece of writing is beautiful ...
... object ; his object is style . A fine passage is ten times more precious in his eyes than the discovery of a fact or the rectification of a date . And on this point I am very much with him , for a beautiful piece of writing is beautiful ...
Page 363
... object loved , it desires the dependence of that object upon itself , and its own triumph . Love is the for- getfulness of self ; jealousy is the most passionate form of egotism , the glorification of a despotic , exacting , and vain ...
... object loved , it desires the dependence of that object upon itself , and its own triumph . Love is the for- getfulness of self ; jealousy is the most passionate form of egotism , the glorification of a despotic , exacting , and vain ...
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