Seventeenth post: Amiel's Journal (1848)

Amiel's Journal was written in Geneva in 1848. Religious and philosophical, his work seeks higher understanding in everyday matters.


SOURCE FOR THIS PICTURE: dailycelebrations.com

A favorite entry:
September 7, 1851. (Aix).- 'It is ten o'clock at night. A strange and
mystic moonlight, with a fresh breeze and a sky crossed by a few
wandering clouds, makes our terrace delightful. These pale and gentle
rays shed from the zenith a subdued and penetrating peace; it is like
the calm joy or the pensive smile of experience, combined with a certain
stoic strength. The stars shine, the leaves tremble in the silver light.
Not a sound in all the landscape; great gulfs of shadow under the green
alleys and at the corners of the steps. Everything is secret, solemn,
mysterious.'