Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lviii
... seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity , to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid . I am distrustful of myself and of happiness because I know myself . The ideal poisons for me all im- perfect ...
... seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity , to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid . I am distrustful of myself and of happiness because I know myself . The ideal poisons for me all im- perfect ...
Page lxiv
... seems to be explained by a too restless search for perfection , by the abuse of the critical faculty , and by an unreasonable distrust of first impulses , first thoughts , first words . Confidence and - spontaneity of life are drifting ...
... seems to be explained by a too restless search for perfection , by the abuse of the critical faculty , and by an unreasonable distrust of first impulses , first thoughts , first words . Confidence and - spontaneity of life are drifting ...
Page lxxv
... seems by contrast to give fresh value to the fine - spun speculations , the lofty despairs , of the Journal . Take these verses , written at twenty - one , to his younger sister - ' Treize ans ! et sur ton front aucun baiser de mère Ne ...
... seems by contrast to give fresh value to the fine - spun speculations , the lofty despairs , of the Journal . Take these verses , written at twenty - one , to his younger sister - ' Treize ans ! et sur ton front aucun baiser de mère Ne ...
Page 8
... seems to have something of the night still clinging about it : Action is but coarsened thought thought become concrete , obscure , and unconscious . It seemed to me that our most trifling actions , of eating , walking , and sleeping ...
... seems to have something of the night still clinging about it : Action is but coarsened thought thought become concrete , obscure , and unconscious . It seemed to me that our most trifling actions , of eating , walking , and sleeping ...
Page 13
... seems to me then , below and very far from the philosophers and the true poets , but honourable among the mor- alists and the critics . He is one of those men who are superior to their works , and who have themselves the unity which ...
... seems to me then , below and very far from the philosophers and the true poets , but honourable among the mor- alists and the critics . He is one of those men who are superior to their works , and who have themselves the unity which ...
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