Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xcii
... affections are stayed on this conception of a holy will at the root of nature and destiny , ' in a certain very real sense he is a Christian . No one is more sensitive than he to the contribution which Christianity has made to the ...
... affections are stayed on this conception of a holy will at the root of nature and destiny , ' in a certain very real sense he is a Christian . No one is more sensitive than he to the contribution which Christianity has made to the ...
Page 14
... affections and preoccupations , of social and educational interests , he abounds in ingenuity and sagacity , in fine criticisms , in exquisite touches . It is like a bee going from flower to flower , a teasing , plundering , wayward ...
... affections and preoccupations , of social and educational interests , he abounds in ingenuity and sagacity , in fine criticisms , in exquisite touches . It is like a bee going from flower to flower , a teasing , plundering , wayward ...
Page 44
... affection . Generally I am able to forget them and lull them to sleep . But at times they wake up with a sort of painful bitterness . . . . I waver between languor and ennui , between frittering myself away on the infinitely lit- tle ...
... affection . Generally I am able to forget them and lull them to sleep . But at times they wake up with a sort of painful bitterness . . . . I waver between languor and ennui , between frittering myself away on the infinitely lit- tle ...
Page 64
... affection , of kindness , and how vulnerable we are , we , the sons of God , we , immortal and sovereign beings ! Strong as the universe or feeble as the worm , ac- cording as we represent God or only our- selves , as we lean upon ...
... affection , of kindness , and how vulnerable we are , we , the sons of God , we , immortal and sovereign beings ! Strong as the universe or feeble as the worm , ac- cording as we represent God or only our- selves , as we lean upon ...
Page 66
... affection to come . The loves of sense , of imagina- tion , of sentiment , I have seen through and rejected them all ; I sought the love which springs from the central profundities of being . And I still believe in it . I will have none ...
... affection to come . The loves of sense , of imagina- tion , of sentiment , I have seen through and rejected them all ; I sought the love which springs from the central profundities of being . And I still believe in it . I will have none ...
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