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He sank on his knees, wrestling with himself and with the bitter longing for life, and the same words rang through him, deafening every cry but their own. 'Quittez, quittez, le long espoir et les vastes pensées! There is little more to tell. The man who had lived so fast was no long time dying. The eager soul was swift in this as in all else.
There was a short pause. "I think," said Madame D'Anville, "that it is in those pensees which you admire so much in Rousseau, that our authors in general excel." "You are right," said Vincent, "and for this reason with you les gens de letters are always les gens du monde. Hence their quick perceptions are devoted to men as well as to books.
The authour of The Government of the Tongue would have us treat all men alike. In the interval between morning and evening service, he endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotional exercises; and as he has mentioned in his Prayers and Meditations, gave me Les Pensees de Paschal, that I might not interrupt him. I preserve the book with reverence.
What makes me speak about the lake is that for a long time I thought these verses, Ton ame est un lac d'amour Dont mes pensees sont les cygnes. Vois comme ils font le tour....
Still, when we read the ‘Provincial Letters’ or the ‘Pensées,’ we feel ourselves in communion with a living writer who knew how to light up with an immortal touch both the follies of ecclesiasticism and the struggles of a solitary spirit after truth.
"Les Pensées" could appear to me only as infinitely childish; the form is no doubt superb, but tiresome and sterile to one of such modern and exotic taste as myself. Still, I accept thankfully, in its sense of two hundred years, the compliment paid to Balzac; but I would add that personally he seems to me to have shown greater wings of mind than any artist that ever lived.
Again, although they were aware that she had rich cousins living in Tokyo, they did not know them personally and could tell her nothing. Her father had left no papers, only his photograph, the picture of a delicate, good-looking, sad-faced man in black cloak and kimono, and a little French book called Pensées de Pascal, at the end of which was written the address of Mr.
Here they are met by an equal number of gentlemen, likewise grouped around a leader who carries the pole, while each holds a streamer of his favourite colour, or that which he imagines would be selected by the dame de ses pensées. The merry groups compare notes: those who possess streamers of the same colour pair off in couples, and valse gaily round the room, returning to places as before.
When I suggested that perhaps the lady she referred to had no mind, my mother would say, "I don't like people with ARRIERE PENSEES"; and ended most of her criticisms by saying, "It looks to me as if she had a poor circulation." My mother had an excellent sense of humour. And this is exactly what my mother had.
Cousin even goes so far as to say that the Pensées of Pascal would never have been published in that form had not the Maxims enjoyed such favor. Pascal often visited Port-Royal and naturally followed the general reflective tendency of its society.
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