...melancholy, this weariness. Let me think, not of all that is lost, but of all that I might still lose. I will reckon up my privileges ; I will try to be worthy...invoking the while something which has no name, unless it he happiness or death. 28th March 1881.— I cannot work ; I find it difficult to exist. One may be...

...vj$e « curean. For five or six We^-i *^ f \\vaNfe nothing else but wait, nuj>s "N "a ^ myself, aiid how weary one gets of it ! What I want is work. It...languor, and languor to disgust Besides, here is the sprin; again, the season of vague desires, of dull discomforts, of dim aspirations, of sighs without...

...useful lesson for youth to learn early." It was Amiel [4o] who said: "It is work that gives flavor to life. Mere existence without object and without...Idleness leads to languor, and languor to disgust." Zola, putting it a little too strongly perhaps, showing nevertheless his thought regarding it, says...

...more useful lesson for youth to learn early." It was Amiel who said: "It is work that gives flavor to life. Mere existence without object and without...Idleness leads to languor, and languor to disgust." Zola, putting it a little too strongly perhaps, showing nevertheless his thought regarding it, says:...