Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 7
... madness , and to the merry songs of the birds . And everything has had the same message for me : Place yourself once more in harmony with the universal law ; accept the will of God ; make a religious use of life ; work while it is yet ...
... madness , and to the merry songs of the birds . And everything has had the same message for me : Place yourself once more in harmony with the universal law ; accept the will of God ; make a religious use of life ; work while it is yet ...
Page 33
... madness ; in other words , be- cause the soul of a woman has something obscure and mysterious in it , which lends itself to all superstitions and weakens the energies of man . To man belong law , justice , science , and philosophy , all ...
... madness ; in other words , be- cause the soul of a woman has something obscure and mysterious in it , which lends itself to all superstitions and weakens the energies of man . To man belong law , justice , science , and philosophy , all ...
Page 62
... madness of gold — to it will be confided the task of chastising a false principle and its followers . And plutocracy will be in its turn executed by equality . It would be a strange end for it , if Anglo - Saxon individ- ualism were ...
... madness of gold — to it will be confided the task of chastising a false principle and its followers . And plutocracy will be in its turn executed by equality . It would be a strange end for it , if Anglo - Saxon individ- ualism were ...
Page 64
... madness has renewed the face of the world for them , and when they wish to explain what they feel , their ecstasy makes them incomprehensible ; they speak with tongues . A wild intoxication of self - sacrifice , contempt for death , the ...
... madness has renewed the face of the world for them , and when they wish to explain what they feel , their ecstasy makes them incomprehensible ; they speak with tongues . A wild intoxication of self - sacrifice , contempt for death , the ...
Page 95
... madness of Apollo . Cold vision will replace the joys of thought , and we shall see the death of poetry , flayed and dissected by science . 15th February 1871. - Without intend- ing it , nations educate each other , while having ...
... madness of Apollo . Cold vision will replace the joys of thought , and we shall see the death of poetry , flayed and dissected by science . 15th February 1871. - Without intend- ing it , nations educate each other , while having ...
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