“I can find no words for what I feel.”

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Journal Intime (1882), Quotes used in the Introduction by Ward
Context: I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

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Swiss philosopher and poet 1821–1881

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