Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 112
... madness of faith , like the luxury of grief ; it is not within the reach of all the world . Its attraction is peculiar , and affects one like some strange perfume , or bizarre melody . When once the taste for it is set up the mind takes ...
... madness of faith , like the luxury of grief ; it is not within the reach of all the world . Its attraction is peculiar , and affects one like some strange perfume , or bizarre melody . When once the taste for it is set up the mind takes ...
Page 133
... madness ? Illusion , raised to the second power . A sound mind estab- lishes regular relations , a modus vivendi , between things , men , and itself , and it is under the delusion that it has got hold of stable truth and eternal fact ...
... madness ? Illusion , raised to the second power . A sound mind estab- lishes regular relations , a modus vivendi , between things , men , and itself , and it is under the delusion that it has got hold of stable truth and eternal fact ...
Page 226
... madness . He cannot be simple ; the only light he has to give blinds you like that of a fire . He astonishes a reader and provokes him , he moves him and annoys him . There is always some falsity of note in him , which accounts for the ...
... madness . He cannot be simple ; the only light he has to give blinds you like that of a fire . He astonishes a reader and provokes him , he moves him and annoys him . There is always some falsity of note in him , which accounts for the ...
Page 251
... madness already ? No , it is human nature taken in the act ; it is life itself which is a contradiction , for life means an incessant death and a daily resurrection ; it affirms and it denies , it destroys and re- constructs , it ...
... madness already ? No , it is human nature taken in the act ; it is life itself which is a contradiction , for life means an incessant death and a daily resurrection ; it affirms and it denies , it destroys and re- constructs , it ...
Page 283
... madness , from death . The slightest breach is enough to endanger all this frail , ingen- ious edifice , which calls itself my being and my life . Not even the dragonfly symbol is enough to express its frailty ; the soap - bubble is the ...
... madness , from death . The slightest breach is enough to endanger all this frail , ingen- ious edifice , which calls itself my being and my life . Not even the dragonfly symbol is enough to express its frailty ; the soap - bubble is the ...
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