Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page 35
The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frédéric Amiel. look at it ; let the springing germ have the protection of being forgotten , hedge it round with quiet , and do not break in upon its darkness ; let it take shape and grow ...
The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frédéric Amiel. look at it ; let the springing germ have the protection of being forgotten , hedge it round with quiet , and do not break in upon its darkness ; let it take shape and grow ...
Page 40
... Look to yourself ; you are much given to this last fault , and it has already done you great harm . Be ready to bend your pride ; abase yourself even so far as to show yourself ready and clever like others . This world of skilful ...
... Look to yourself ; you are much given to this last fault , and it has already done you great harm . Be ready to bend your pride ; abase yourself even so far as to show yourself ready and clever like others . This world of skilful ...
Page 46
... looks ! How all that usually occupies and excites us becomes suddenly puerile , frivolous , and vain . We seem to ourselves mere puppets , mario- nettes , strutting seriously through a fantas- tic show , and mistaking gewgaws for things ...
... looks ! How all that usually occupies and excites us becomes suddenly puerile , frivolous , and vain . We seem to ourselves mere puppets , mario- nettes , strutting seriously through a fantas- tic show , and mistaking gewgaws for things ...
Page 51
... look and to wait , more in- struction than a library , even than that of Mon oncle . Yes , we are too busy , too encumbered , too much occupied , too active ! We read too much ! The one thing needful is to throw off all one's load of ...
... look and to wait , more in- struction than a library , even than that of Mon oncle . Yes , we are too busy , too encumbered , too much occupied , too active ! We read too much ! The one thing needful is to throw off all one's load of ...
Page 65
... look for them , charmed and en- thralled me . I wielded a poetic wand , and had but to touch a phenomenon to make it render up to me its moral significance . Every landscape is , as it were , a state of the soul , and whoever penetrates ...
... look for them , charmed and en- thralled me . I wielded a poetic wand , and had but to touch a phenomenon to make it render up to me its moral significance . Every landscape is , as it were , a state of the soul , and whoever penetrates ...
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