Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 8
... melancholy neither to be consoled nor confessed , a mournful old age , a slow decay , a death in the desert ! Terrible dilemma ! Whatever is still pos- sible to me has lost its savour , while all that I could still desire escapes me ...
... melancholy neither to be consoled nor confessed , a mournful old age , a slow decay , a death in the desert ! Terrible dilemma ! Whatever is still pos- sible to me has lost its savour , while all that I could still desire escapes me ...
Page 23
... melancholy , and death . And yet my walk was one of the saddest possible . I wandered along the Rhone and the Arve , and all the memories of the past , all the disappointments of the present , and all the anxieties of the future , laid ...
... melancholy , and death . And yet my walk was one of the saddest possible . I wandered along the Rhone and the Arve , and all the memories of the past , all the disappointments of the present , and all the anxieties of the future , laid ...
Page 39
... melancholy ; the Hamburger all fancy and satire . Neither developed freely nor normally . Both of them , be- cause of an initial mistake , threw them- selves into an endless quarrel with the world . Both were revolutionists . They were ...
... melancholy ; the Hamburger all fancy and satire . Neither developed freely nor normally . Both of them , be- cause of an initial mistake , threw them- selves into an endless quarrel with the world . Both were revolutionists . They were ...
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... melancholy , be- fitting a funeral oration over one who was a master in the things of the mind . - The fact is , that Sainte - Beuve leaves a greater void behind him than either Béranger or Lamartine ; their greatness was already ...
... melancholy , be- fitting a funeral oration over one who was a master in the things of the mind . - The fact is , that Sainte - Beuve leaves a greater void behind him than either Béranger or Lamartine ; their greatness was already ...
Page 52
... melancholy of Buddhism encom- passed and overshadowed me . If , in fact , it is only illusion which hides from us the horror of existence and makes life tol- erable to us , then existence is a snare and life an evil . Like the Greek ...
... melancholy of Buddhism encom- passed and overshadowed me . If , in fact , it is only illusion which hides from us the horror of existence and makes life tol- erable to us , then existence is a snare and life an evil . Like the Greek ...
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