“Only the hopeless love God.”
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Jennifer Donnelly 59
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“For hopeless love is but a dream and shade.”
Che l'amar senza speme è sogno e ciancia.
Canto XXV, stanza 49 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“My love is hopeless! I know it. But it will feed me to my dying day.”
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol (1912), p. 103.
8 March 1868
The will localizes us, thought universalizes us. My soul wavers between two, four, six general and contradictory conceptions, for it obeys all the great instincts of human nature, and aspires to the absolute, which can only be realized by a succession of contraries.
As translated in The Private Journal of Henri Frédéric Amiel (1935), p. 238
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Context: Action limits us; whereas in the state of contemplation we are endlessly expansive. Will localizes us; thought universalizes us. My soul wavers between half a dozen antagonistic general conceptions, because it is responsive to all the great instincts of human nature, and its aspiration is to the absolute, which is only to be reached through a succession of contraries. It has taken me a great deal of time to understand myself, and I frequently find myself beginning over again the study of the oft-solved problem, so difficult is it for us to maintain any fixed point within us. I love everything, and detest one thing only — the hopeless imprisonment of my being within a single arbitrary form, even were it chosen by myself. Liberty for the inner man is then the strongest of my passions — perhaps my only passion. Is such a passion lawful? It has been my habit to think so, but intermittently, by fits and starts. I am not perfectly sure of it.
“What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.”
Sobornost (1977)
