Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xiv
... soul's cry for inward peace , might make themselves freely heard . In the directions concerning his papers which he left behind him , Amiel expressed the wish that his literary executors should publish those parts of the Journal which ...
... soul's cry for inward peace , might make themselves freely heard . In the directions concerning his papers which he left behind him , Amiel expressed the wish that his literary executors should publish those parts of the Journal which ...
Page xxi
... soul which has lived through the same struggles , men- tal and moral , as Amiel . In your pathetic description of the volonté qui voudrait vou- loir , mais impuissante à se fournir à elle- même des motifs , of the repugnance for all ...
... soul which has lived through the same struggles , men- tal and moral , as Amiel . In your pathetic description of the volonté qui voudrait vou- loir , mais impuissante à se fournir à elle- même des motifs , of the repugnance for all ...
Page lxiii
... soul and makes it dependent on external things and aims . The joy of becoming once more con- scious of myself , of listening to the passage of time and the flow of the universal life , is sometimes enough to make me forget every desire ...
... soul and makes it dependent on external things and aims . The joy of becoming once more con- scious of myself , of listening to the passage of time and the flow of the universal life , is sometimes enough to make me forget every desire ...
Page lxiv
... soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . ' To know is enough for me ; expres . sion seems to me often a profanity . I lack is character , will , individuality . ' - ' By what mystery , ' he writes to M. Scherer , ' do ...
... soul , paralysis of the will , complete self - dis- trust . ' To know is enough for me ; expres . sion seems to me often a profanity . I lack is character , will , individuality . ' - ' By what mystery , ' he writes to M. Scherer , ' do ...
Page xci
... soul the fruit of life , and liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and . bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history ...
... soul the fruit of life , and liberty the flower of necessity . ' Consciousness is the one fixed point in this boundless and . bottomless gulf of things , and the soul's inward law , as it has been painfully elabo- rated by human history ...
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