Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxviii
... dreams . And , as always happens with a first - rate man , what struck him even more than the teaching was the teacher . So that this memory of 1840 is still dear and precious to him , and for this double service , which is not of the ...
... dreams . And , as always happens with a first - rate man , what struck him even more than the teaching was the teacher . So that this memory of 1840 is still dear and precious to him , and for this double service , which is not of the ...
Page lxii
... dream , to feel , to learn , to understand - all these are possible to me if only I may be dis- pensed from willing I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of - hatred , of all which dissipates the soul and makes ...
... dream , to feel , to learn , to understand - all these are possible to me if only I may be dis- pensed from willing I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of - hatred , of all which dissipates the soul and makes ...
Page lxxxvii
... dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have found their natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness for ...
... dream - world which he has described with so much subtle beauty ; rather the energies which should have found their natural expression in literary or family life , pent up within the mind itself , excited in it a perpetual eagerness for ...
Page xcii
... dream alone , we suffer alone , we die alone , we inhabit the last resting - place alone . But there is nothing to prevent us from opening our solitude to God . And so what was an austere mono- logue becomes dialogue , reluctance ...
... dream alone , we suffer alone , we die alone , we inhabit the last resting - place alone . But there is nothing to prevent us from opening our solitude to God . And so what was an austere mono- logue becomes dialogue , reluctance ...
Page 4
... dreams I have are all vague and indefinite ; I ought not to live , for I am now scarcely capable of living . Recognise your place ; let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ...
... dreams I have are all vague and indefinite ; I ought not to live , for I am now scarcely capable of living . Recognise your place ; let the living live ; and you , gather together your thoughts , leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ...
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