The disciple by Paul Bourget

Author:Paul Bourget
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: French Literature, Philosophy, Classics
ISBN: 9781333643386
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 1889-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The smallest accidents appear in my mind to state general problems. Every event of my destiny leads me to some theory on the destiny of all. Here, where another man would have said: "It is a pity that fate should have permitted a single kind of development," I took it on myself to ask if I were not deceived in the law of all development.

Since I had, thanks to your admirable books, freed my soul and oast to earth my vain religious terrors, I had retained only one of my old, pious practices, the habit of daily examining my conscience, under the form of a journal, and from time to time I made what I called an orison. I transported, with a singular enjoyment, the terms of religion into the realm of my personal sensibility. I called that again the liturgy of the "I."

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