Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xxi
... feel for- cibly the truth of this , as it applies to my- self ! - ' It is not , however , with the view of thrusting my egotism upon you that I have ventured upon addressing you . As I can- not suppose that so peculiar a psychological ...
... feel for- cibly the truth of this , as it applies to my- self ! - ' It is not , however , with the view of thrusting my egotism upon you that I have ventured upon addressing you . As I can- not suppose that so peculiar a psychological ...
Page liii
... feel . My consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating , and my life pass- ing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall ...
... feel . My consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating , and my life pass- ing . It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time , that I am the spectator of some mystery , and shall ...
Page lxii
... feel , to learn , to understand all these are possible to me if only I may be dis- pensed from willing - I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of hatred , of all which dissipates the soul and makes lxii AMIEL'S ...
... feel , to learn , to understand all these are possible to me if only I may be dis- pensed from willing - I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of hatred , of all which dissipates the soul and makes lxii AMIEL'S ...
Page lxiv
... feel myself to be incapable of anything serious or important . ' Défiance and im- puissance are the words constantly on his lips . My friends see what I might have been ; I see what I am . ' 6 And yet the literary instinct remains , and ...
... feel myself to be incapable of anything serious or important . ' Défiance and im- puissance are the words constantly on his lips . My friends see what I might have been ; I see what I am . ' 6 And yet the literary instinct remains , and ...
Page lxvi
... feeling of those who knew him as they watched his life slipping away unmarked by any of the achievements of which his youth had given promise , and pointed out ... feel to have been tragic . A kind of remorse seizes lxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... feeling of those who knew him as they watched his life slipping away unmarked by any of the achievements of which his youth had given promise , and pointed out ... feel to have been tragic . A kind of remorse seizes lxvi AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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