Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xxx
... heart in secret ; " whether the greatest problems which have ever been guessed on earth had not better have remained buried in the brain which had found the key to them , and whether the deepest thinkers — those - whose hand has been ...
... heart in secret ; " whether the greatest problems which have ever been guessed on earth had not better have remained buried in the brain which had found the key to them , and whether the deepest thinkers — those - whose hand has been ...
Page xlvii
... heart has been full of sadness and dis- appointment , and I have known and felt that I have been systematically and deliber- ately isolated . Untimely despair and the deepest discouragement have been my con- stant portion . Incapable of ...
... heart has been full of sadness and dis- appointment , and I have known and felt that I have been systematically and deliber- ately isolated . Untimely despair and the deepest discouragement have been my con- stant portion . Incapable of ...
Page l
... heart which Amiel brought back with him from Berlin ? In the first place , an omniv- orous desire to know : ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and concentrated thought ...
... heart which Amiel brought back with him from Berlin ? In the first place , an omniv- orous desire to know : ' Amiel , ' says M. Scherer , ' read everything . ' In the second , an extraordinary power of sustained and concentrated thought ...
Page liii
... heart beating , and my life pass- ing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again ...
... heart beating , and my life pass- ing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall issue from it old , or no longer capable of age . ' Or again ...
Page lxxix
... heart disease , complicated by disease of the larynx , ' and that he suffered much and long . ' He was buried in the cemetery of Clarens , not far from his great contemporary Alexandre Vinet ; and the affection of a sculptor friend ...
... heart disease , complicated by disease of the larynx , ' and that he suffered much and long . ' He was buried in the cemetery of Clarens , not far from his great contemporary Alexandre Vinet ; and the affection of a sculptor friend ...
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