Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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... a sort of languid grace . Already I am full of a sense of wellbeing , I am tasting the joys of that contemplative state in which the soul , issuing from itself , becomes as it were the I soul of a country or a landscape , and feels.
... a sort of languid grace . Already I am full of a sense of wellbeing , I am tasting the joys of that contemplative state in which the soul , issuing from itself , becomes as it were the I soul of a country or a landscape , and feels.
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... feels living within it a multitude of lives . Here is no more resistance , negation , blame ; everything is affirmative ; I feel myself in harmony with nature and with surround- ings , of which I seem to myself the ex- pression . The ...
... feels living within it a multitude of lives . Here is no more resistance , negation , blame ; everything is affirmative ; I feel myself in harmony with nature and with surround- ings , of which I seem to myself the ex- pression . The ...
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... to be content . " 999 26th August 1868 . After all the storms of feeling within and the organic disturb- ances without , which during these latter months have pinned me so closely to my own individual AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 7.
... to be content . " 999 26th August 1868 . After all the storms of feeling within and the organic disturb- ances without , which during these latter months have pinned me so closely to my own individual AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 7.
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... feel I cannot do without affection , and I know that I have no ambi- tion , and that my faculties are declining . I remember that I am forty - seven years old , and that all my brood of youthful hopes has flown away . So that there is ...
... feel I cannot do without affection , and I know that I have no ambi- tion , and that my faculties are declining . I remember that I am forty - seven years old , and that all my brood of youthful hopes has flown away . So that there is ...
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... feel that in it I have attained to that relative truth which may be defined as consistency with self , the harmony of appearance with real- ity , of thought with expression , — in other - words , sincerity , ingenuousness , inward- ness ...
... feel that in it I have attained to that relative truth which may be defined as consistency with self , the harmony of appearance with real- ity , of thought with expression , — in other - words , sincerity , ingenuousness , inward- ness ...
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