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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Paperback – October 9, 2013

by Henri Frédéric Amiel (Author), Mrs Humphrey Ward (Translator, Introduction)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
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“The great artist is the simplifier.”

“Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) - Amiel's Journal, 1849-1872, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the translator of the ‘Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel, has had it in her power to recommend the work to the English public with some influential critical testimonies of an enthusiastic character, proceeding from no less personages than M. Scherer, Mr. Renan, and Mark Pattison, the late Rector of Lincoln.” -The Westminster Review, Volume 125, January, 1886

“In this mixture of the faith which clings and aspires, with the intellectual pliancy which allows the mind to sway freely under the pressure of life and experience, and the deep respect for truth, which will allow nothing to interfere between thought and its appointed tasks--that Amiel's special claim upon us lies. It is this balance of forces in him which makes him so widely representative of the modern mind--of its doubts, its convictions, its hopes. He speaks for the life of to-day as no other single voice has yet spoken for it; in his contradictions, his fears, his despairs, and yet in the constant straining toward the unseen and the ideal which gives a fundamental unity to his inner life, he is the type of a generation universally touched with doubt, and yet as sensitive to the need of faith as any that have gone before it; more widely conscious than its predecessors of the limitations of the human mind, and of the iron pressure of man's physical environment; but at the same time--paradox as it may seem--more conscious of man's greatness, more deeply thrilled by the spectacle of the nobility and beauty interwoven with the universe.” -From the Introduction "“Do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love.”

"Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration and not enough character. The life of thought alone 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 imperfect possession. And I abhor useless regrets and repentance."

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    562 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    October 9, 2013
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 1.27 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1492933058
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1492933052
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 9, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 562 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492933058
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492933052
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.27 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 47 ratings

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skmurphy
5.0 out of 5 stars A Well Written Personal Journal Offering Many Insights
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2015
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Well written and still timely. Amiel offers many insights I have found quite valuable:

"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you."
Henri Frederic Amiel

"Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium"
Henri Frederic Amiel

This is not a book of maxims but a curated set of entries from his private journal, published after his death. Still he offers a number of useful observations:

"In the conduct of life, habits count more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, become flesh and instinct. To reform one maxims is nothing; it is but to change the title on the book. To learn new habits is everything; for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Tat2dcowboy
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2016
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One of the most artistically written books I have ever read
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2017
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Thanks
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Seungyeon Kang
5.0 out of 5 stars beautiful and spiritual
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015
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So thoughtful, beautiful and spiritual!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ability to open your mind to reality
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2022
I used the book to see how people from an earlier age had grasped the reality of finding God and also how to let Him live within us and lead us to peace and LOVE in the midst of chaos.
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Tsipi Keller
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018
DELICIOUS! FILLS YOUR HEART AND MIND. KEEP IT AT YOUR BEDSIDE.
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Emily Dickinson
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015
SENSITIVE, POETIC, ENLIGHTENING
A BOOK THAT WILL NEVER
GROW OLD!
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Jeremy
5.0 out of 5 stars great book. If you read rimbaud, baudelaire, etc.
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2003
They were contemporaries. The copy I read was a first edition printed in 1897; it's a tiny book that almost looks like an old bible. The pages are goldlined, with a leather cover, and it's small enough (3.5 inches x 4 inches) to slide in your back pocket. The typeface is so small (font size 6? font size 4?) i could barely read it. I won't spoil it for you but it's certainly worth reading, and although as a diary, it was never meant for publication, nietzsche  for example, read amiel. There are, incidentally, two books. Amiel's Journal Intime volume I and volume II.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great to be able to read titles not previously avalable.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2019
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Very pleased with the quality of the print for an economy reproduction....will recommend Forgotten Books to other people.
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Nico Ferran
5.0 out of 5 stars Troppo sottovalutato
Reviewed in Italy on January 3, 2017
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Amiel è stato un filosofo che, in certo suoi interventi, palesa una inclinazione visionaria e addirittura profetica. Certe sue descrizioni dello stato della società e del mondo paiono scritte oggi e non un secolo fa. Da leggere! Consegna puntualissima.
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raffaele
5.0 out of 5 stars Tutto ok
Reviewed in Italy on January 22, 2020
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Prodotto conforme alla descrizione
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alfonsolupia
1.0 out of 5 stars Recensione
Reviewed in Italy on May 1, 2023
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Non mi è piaciuto
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Fran Cisco
3.0 out of 5 stars Interessante
Reviewed in Italy on September 5, 2019
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