journal intime

American  

[zhoor-na lan-teem] / ʒur na lɛ̃ˈtim /

noun

French.

plural

journaux intimes

1. a personal or private diary.

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Example Sentences

In his "Journal Intime," that most distinguished prelate of modern France, Mgr.

From Project Gutenberg

To understand the third of the three characters from real life in “Robert Elsmere,” it is necessary to glance at the story of Henri Fr�d�ric Amiel, a Swiss essayist, philosopher, and dreamer, who was born in 1821 and died in 1881, leaving as a legacy to his friends a “Journal Intime” covering the psychological observations, meditations, and inmost thoughts of thirty years.

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It was the journal intime which he had begun as a youth, and continued and amplified through succeeding years.

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Of his mysticism, of the symbolism in which his "Journal Intime" is written in his own firm cipher, this little book is not the place to speak; though for those who have once come to know the true Holbein these have a spell, a stern, inexhaustible enchantment all their own.

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And what marvel is it that Amiel in his Journal Intime should twice have made use of the Spanish word nada, nothing, doubtless because he found none more expressive in any other language?

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