Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page li
... rest of the personality . Nor had any special subject the power to fix him . Had he been in France , what Sainte - Beuve calls the French imagination de détail ' would probably have attracted his pliant , responsive nature , and he ...
... rest of the personality . Nor had any special subject the power to fix him . Had he been in France , what Sainte - Beuve calls the French imagination de détail ' would probably have attracted his pliant , responsive nature , and he ...
Page lvi
... rest of the organism to react against the tyranny of the brain . And as the normal 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 ...
... rest of the organism to react against the tyranny of the brain . And as the normal 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 ...
Page lvii
Henri Frédéric Amiel. which the intellect gains at the expense of the rest of the personality is in many re- spects so real and so splendid , and produces results so stirring often to the heart and imagination of the listener , that in ...
Henri Frédéric Amiel. which the intellect gains at the expense of the rest of the personality is in many re- spects so real and so splendid , and produces results so stirring often to the heart and imagination of the listener , that in ...
Page lxxxv
... rest the story of his inner life has but small value in the history of thought . His difficulties do not go deep enough ; his struggle is intellectu- ally not serious enough - we see in it only a common incident of modern experience ...
... rest the story of his inner life has but small value in the history of thought . His difficulties do not go deep enough ; his struggle is intellectu- ally not serious enough - we see in it only a common incident of modern experience ...
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... rest as a loan , a usufruct . To adore , to understand , to receive , to feel , to give , to act : there is my law , my duty , my happiness , my heaven . Let come what come will . even death . Only be at peace with self , live in the ...
... rest as a loan , a usufruct . To adore , to understand , to receive , to feel , to give , to act : there is my law , my duty , my happiness , my heaven . Let come what come will . even death . Only be at peace with self , live in the ...
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