Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2 |
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Page 26
... happiness , and happiness escapes the pur- suit of all . The only viaticum which can help us in the journey of life is that furnished by a great duty and some serious affections . And even affections die , or at least their objects are ...
... happiness , and happiness escapes the pur- suit of all . The only viaticum which can help us in the journey of life is that furnished by a great duty and some serious affections . And even affections die , or at least their objects are ...
Page 27
... happiness and of love . A passionate wish to live , to feel , to express , stirred the depths of my heart . It was a sudden re - awakening of youth , a flash of poetry , a renewing of the soul , a fresh growth of the wings of desire . I ...
... happiness and of love . A passionate wish to live , to feel , to express , stirred the depths of my heart . It was a sudden re - awakening of youth , a flash of poetry , a renewing of the soul , a fresh growth of the wings of desire . I ...
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... happiness ; the second believes that indi- viduality is the obstacle to all repose , and he longs for the dissolution of the soul itself . The dread of the first is the Para- dise of the second . One thing only is necessary , the com ...
... happiness ; the second believes that indi- viduality is the obstacle to all repose , and he longs for the dissolution of the soul itself . The dread of the first is the Para- dise of the second . One thing only is necessary , the com ...
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... happiness is ensured . ' again : One mother is more venerable than a thousand fathers . ' But knowing what stormy and irrational elements there are in this fragile and delightful creature , Manou concludes : At no age ought a woman to ...
... happiness is ensured . ' again : One mother is more venerable than a thousand fathers . ' But knowing what stormy and irrational elements there are in this fragile and delightful creature , Manou concludes : At no age ought a woman to ...
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... happiness is a chimera and suffer- ing a reality , ' for whom the negation of will and of desire is the only road to de- liverance , ' and ' the individual life is a misfortune from which impersonal contem- plation is the only ...
... happiness is a chimera and suffer- ing a reality , ' for whom the negation of will and of desire is the only road to de- liverance , ' and ' the individual life is a misfortune from which impersonal contem- plation is the only ...
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