Amiels Journal the Journal Intime of Henri Frdric Amiel
Amiels Journal the Journal Intime of Henri Frdric Amiel
Henri Frdric Amiel
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I never AMIEL'S JOURNAL 201 feel more strongly than I do then, l le vide effrayant de la vie, ' the stress of mental anxiety, or the painful thirst for happiness. This torture born of the sunlight is a strange phenomenon. Is it that the sun, just as it brings out the stain upon a garment, the wrinkles in a face, or the discoloration of the hair, so also it illumines with inexorable distinctness the scars and rents of the heart 1 Does it rouse in us a sort of shame of existence ? In any case the... bright hours of the day are capable of flooding the whole soul with melancholy, of kindling in us the passion for death, or suicide, or annihilation, or of driving us to that which is next akin to death, the deadening of the senses by the pursuit of pleasure. They rouse in the lonely man a horror of himself ; they make him long to escape from his own misery and solitude, — ' Le cceur trempe sept fois dans le neant divin. ' People talk of the temptations to crime connected with darkness, but the dumb sense of desolation which is often the product of the most brilliant moment of daylight must not be forgotten either.
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