Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page 76
... perfect , the other more colossal . The first gives you the peace of per- fect art , beauty , at first sight . The second gives you sub- limity , terror , pity , a beauty of second impression . The one gives that for which the other ...
... perfect , the other more colossal . The first gives you the peace of per- fect art , beauty , at first sight . The second gives you sub- limity , terror , pity , a beauty of second impression . The one gives that for which the other ...
Page 334
... perfect . Being , im- perfect : " this horrible sophism becomes beautiful only in the Platonic system , because there Non - being is replaced by the Idea , which is , and which is divine . The ideal , the chimerical , the vacant ...
... perfect . Being , im- perfect : " this horrible sophism becomes beautiful only in the Platonic system , because there Non - being is replaced by the Idea , which is , and which is divine . The ideal , the chimerical , the vacant ...
Page 363
... perfect in proportion to perfectness of soul , is the only affinity which is worth anything . True love is that which ennobles the personality , fortifies the heart , and sanctifies the existence . And the being we love must not be ...
... perfect in proportion to perfectness of soul , is the only affinity which is worth anything . True love is that which ennobles the personality , fortifies the heart , and sanctifies the existence . And the being we love must not be ...
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