Quotes About Amiel

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

It has always disappointed me to read the allusions in Amiel's diary to the fact that he published books. That's where he falls down. How great he would be otherwise!

Amiel écrirait que son âme émet des rayons noirs.

Inside the house, near the hearth, Amiel had built a sort of fire pit with rocks. It was a safer place to cook than most campsites, really, because there was concrete all around, and I longed to be there when he had the fire going, when we could be cowgirl and cowboy and pretend we weren't a few miles from two million people.

I had reached the end if the trail and the dead end of Willow Glen Road, which meant I had a long way to go, most of it uphill. I heard a bicycle, and because sometimes the world gives you what you want, the bicycle that streaked into view held Amiel.

Henri Frédéric Amiel