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Page vii
... 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 - ex- amination and confession , 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 - ex- amination and confession , the soul's cry for inward peace , might ...
Page xxiv
... means of happiness , led Amiel straight into the wilderness of abstract speculation . And the longer he lingered in the wilder- ness , unchecked by any sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the ...
... means of happiness , led Amiel straight into the wilderness of abstract speculation . And the longer he lingered in the wilder- ness , unchecked by any sense of intellectual responsibility , and far from the sounds of human life , the ...
Page xxvii
... means the invariable , accompaniment 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 * M. Alphonse Rivier , now Professor of ...
... means the invariable , accompaniment 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 * M. Alphonse Rivier , now Professor of ...
Page xxx
... 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 me that I was not able to under- stand my friend better , and to soothe his suffering 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 me that I was not able to under- stand my friend better , and to soothe his suffering by ...
Page xxxi
... mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is ... means of satisfying a need of expres- sion which otherwise could find no outlet ; a grief - cheating device , ' but ...
... mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these there is ... means of satisfying a need of expres- sion which otherwise could find no outlet ; a grief - cheating device , ' but ...
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Page 168 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 289 - ... la prier, La cruelle qu'elle est se bouche les oreilles Et nous laisse crier. Le pauvre en sa cabane, où le chaume le couvre, Est sujet à ses lois; Et la garde qui veille aux barrières du Louvre N'en défend point nos rois. De murmurer contre elle et perdre patience, II est mal à propos; Vouloir ce que Dieu veut est la seule science Qui nous met en repos.
Page 244 - Chacun se réveille à ce son, Les Brebis, le Chien, le Garçon. Le pauvre Loup, dans cet esclandre, Empêché par son hoqueton, Ne put ni fuir ni se défendre. Toujours par quelque endroit fourbes se laissent prendre. Quiconque est Loup agisse en Loup : C'est le plus certain de beaucoup.
Page 304 - Entre toutes les différentes expressions qui peuvent rendre une seule de nos pensées, il n'y en a qu'une qui soit la bonne. On ne la rencontre pas toujours en parlant ou en écrivant ; il est vrai néanmoins qu'elle existe, que tout ce qui ne l'est point est faible, et ne satisfait point un homme d'esprit qui veut se faire entendre.
Page 299 - Where are the great, whom thou would'st wish to praise thee ? Where are the pure, whom thou would'st choose to love thee? Where are the brave, to stand supreme above thee, Whose high commands would cheer, whose chidings raise thee? Seek, seeker, in thyself ; submit to find In the stones, bread, and life in the blank mind.
Page xli - Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits, a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.
Page 2 - Never to tire, never to grow cold ; to be patient, sympathetic, tender ; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart ; to hope always, like God ; to love always, — this is duty.
Page 9 - Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid.
Page 105 - The ideal, after all, is truer than the real : for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things : it is their type, their sum, their raison d'&tre, their formula in the book of the Creator, and therefore at once the most exact and the most condensed expression of them.
Page 182 - It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German society, and its inferiority to the societies of France and England are most clearly visible. The notion of a thing's jarring on the taste is wanting to German aesthetics.