Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2 |
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... living within it a multitude of lives . Here is no more resistance , negation , blame ; everything is affirmative ; I feel myself in harmony with nature and with surround- ings , of which I seem to myself the ex- pression . The heart ...
... living within it a multitude of lives . Here is no more resistance , negation , blame ; everything is affirmative ; I feel myself in harmony with nature and with surround- ings , of which I seem to myself the ex- pression . The heart ...
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... living - that is to say , of disen- gaging the pure form and subtlest essence of our individual being . 26th April 1868 ( Sunday , Mid - day ) . — A gloomy morning . On all sides a depressing outlook , and within , disgust with self ...
... living - that is to say , of disen- gaging the pure form and subtlest essence of our individual being . 26th April 1868 ( Sunday , Mid - day ) . — A gloomy morning . On all sides a depressing outlook , and within , disgust with self ...
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... living , the shame of existing and suffer- ing as a common creature who has missed his vocation ; it is the bitter and increasing humiliation of declining power , of growing old under the weight of one's own disap- proval , and the ...
... living , the shame of existing and suffer- ing as a common creature who has missed his vocation ; it is the bitter and increasing humiliation of declining power , of growing old under the weight of one's own disap- proval , and the ...
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... living barometer is a warning to us that the time has come to say farewell to the mountains . There is nothing to gain , and everything to lose , by despising the example of nature , and making arbitrary rules of life for oneself . Our ...
... living barometer is a warning to us that the time has come to say farewell to the mountains . There is nothing to gain , and everything to lose , by despising the example of nature , and making arbitrary rules of life for oneself . Our ...
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... living beings . I saw that the living are but apparitions hovering for a moment over the earth , made out of the ashes of the dead , and swiftly re - absorbed by eternal night , as the will - o ' - the - wisp sinks into the marsh . The ...
... living beings . I saw that the living are but apparitions hovering for a moment over the earth , made out of the ashes of the dead , and swiftly re - absorbed by eternal night , as the will - o ' - the - wisp sinks into the marsh . The ...
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