Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page liii
... consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating , and my life pass- ing .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 issue from it ...
... consciousness is withdrawn into itself ; I hear my heart beating , and my life pass- ing .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 issue from it ...
Page lxiv
... conscious at once of the weak point , the germ of failure in a project or an action . It is another aspect of the same idiosyncrasy . ' The point I have reached seems to be explained by a too restless search for perfection , by the ...
... conscious at once of the weak point , the germ of failure in a project or an action . It is another aspect of the same idiosyncrasy . ' The point I have reached seems to be explained by a too restless search for perfection , by the ...
Page lxxii
... consciousness and artificiality in his attitude towards the outer world , which was the result partly of the social difficulties we have described , partly of his own sense of difference from his surroundings , and partly again of that ...
... consciousness and artificiality in his attitude towards the outer world , which was the result partly of the social difficulties we have described , partly of his own sense of difference from his surroundings , and partly again of that ...
Page lxxix
... conscious of the fact than himself . The story of his fatal illness , of the weary struggle for health which filled the last seven years of his life , is abundantly told in the Journal- we must not repeat it here . He had never been a ...
... conscious of the fact than himself . The story of his fatal illness , of the weary struggle for health which filled the last seven years of his life , is abundantly told in the Journal- we must not repeat it here . He had never been a ...
Page lxxxvi
... conscious- ness of to - day , of the modern world , in its twofold relation - its relation towards the infinite and the unknowable , and its rela- tion towards the visible universe which con- ditions it which is the real subject of the ...
... conscious- ness of to - day , of the modern world , in its twofold relation - its relation towards the infinite and the unknowable , and its rela- tion towards the visible universe which con- ditions it which is the real subject of the ...
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