Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xiv
... means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - examination and con- fession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might ...
... means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his questionings of fate and the future , the voice of grief , of self - examination and con- fession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might ...
Page lii
... the pleasant paths which traverse the kingdom of Knowledge , in which so many of us find shelter and life - long means of happiness , led Amiel straight into the wilderness of abstract speculation . And the lii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... the pleasant paths which traverse the kingdom of Knowledge , in which so many of us find shelter and life - long means of happiness , led Amiel straight into the wilderness of abstract speculation . And the lii AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page lxi
... means the invariable , accom- paniment of the literary gift , must have been fairly strong in him also . For the Journal Intime runs to 17,000 folio pages of MS . , and his half - dozen volumes of poems , though the actual quantity is ...
... means the invariable , accom- paniment of the literary gift , must have been fairly strong in him also . For the Journal Intime runs to 17,000 folio pages of MS . , and his half - dozen volumes of poems , though the actual quantity is ...
Page lxvi
... What I regret is to have discovered too late by means of the Journal , the key to a problem which seemed to me hardly serious , and which I now feel to have been tragic . A kind of remorse seizes lxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... What I regret is to have discovered too late by means of the Journal , the key to a problem which seemed to me hardly serious , and which I now feel to have been tragic . A kind of remorse seizes lxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page lxviii
... mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is no anticipation of any posthumous triumph over the disapproval - a of his friends and the criticism of his fellow ...
... mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is no anticipation of any posthumous triumph over the disapproval - a of his friends and the criticism of his fellow ...
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