Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page xxxi
... human tongue cannot truly express , nor human intelligence con- ceive . ' Curious words for a beginner of twenty- one ! There is a touch , no doubt , of youth and fatuity in the passage ; one feels how much the vague sonorous phrases ...
... human tongue cannot truly express , nor human intelligence con- ceive . ' Curious words for a beginner of twenty- one ! There is a touch , no doubt , of youth and fatuity in the passage ; one feels how much the vague sonorous phrases ...
Page liii
... human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them I can find no words for what I feel . My consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating ...
... human life , the stranger and the weirder grew the hallucinations of thought . The Journal gives marvellous expression to them I can find no words for what I feel . My consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating ...
Page liv
... institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and tempo- rary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all , how is it possible to liv AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and tempo- rary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all , how is it possible to liv AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page lv
... human animal towards healthy move- ment and a normal play of function , never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward combination of circumstance . The low health from which he suffered more or less from ...
... human animal towards healthy move- ment and a normal play of function , never very strong in him , was gradually weakened and destroyed by an untoward combination of circumstance . The low health from which he suffered more or less from ...
Page lvi
... human motives lost their force , what he calls the Buddhist tendency in me ' gathered strength year by year , until , like some strange mis- growth , it had absorbed the whole energies and drained the innermost life - blood of the ...
... human motives lost their force , what he calls the Buddhist tendency in me ' gathered strength year by year , until , like some strange mis- growth , it had absorbed the whole energies and drained the innermost life - blood of the ...
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