Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lxviii
... better than withered leaves ? To whom and to what have I been useful ? Will my name survive me a single day , and will it ever mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these ...
... better than withered leaves ? To whom and to what have I been useful ? Will my name survive me a single day , and will it ever mean anything to anybody ? A life of no account ! When all is added up - nothing ! ' In passages like these ...
Page lxxiii
... better and longer than I say the same . The mobility of his disposition counteracted his tendency to exaggerations of feeling . In spite of his fits of melancholy , his natu- ral turn of mind was cheerful ; up to the end he was young ...
... better and longer than I say the same . The mobility of his disposition counteracted his tendency to exaggerations of feeling . In spite of his fits of melancholy , his natu- ral turn of mind was cheerful ; up to the end he was young ...
Page lxxx
... better left unattempted , at least to a volume of Letters , which would complete the Journal Intime , as Joubert's Corre- spondance completes the Pensées . There must be ample material for it ; and Amiel's letters would probably supply ...
... better left unattempted , at least to a volume of Letters , which would complete the Journal Intime , as Joubert's Corre- spondance completes the Pensées . There must be ample material for it ; and Amiel's letters would probably supply ...
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... better . If its summons is near , so much the better still ; if a half - death overtake still so much the better . for so the path of success is closed to me only that I may find opening before me the path of heroism , of moral ...
... better . If its summons is near , so much the better still ; if a half - death overtake still so much the better . for so the path of success is closed to me only that I may find opening before me the path of heroism , of moral ...
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... better . Put personal ambition away from you , and then you will find consolation in living or in dying , whatever may happen to you . 27th May 1849. To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life ...
... better . Put personal ambition away from you , and then you will find consolation in living or in dying , whatever may happen to you . 27th May 1849. To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life ...
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