Letter

  1 Introd    |         his work: ‘Do you want to know what is the real Valentine,
  2 Introd    |      Roualt.’ ‘And do you want to know what becomes of a woman
  3 Introd    |           an autopsy. What can we know of such an author? All,
  4 Introd    |          something interesting. I know so well how to live OUTSIDE
  5 Introd    |        defect is that she doesn’t know how to “hate.” She replies,
  6 Introd    |       everything, everyone that I know a little and that I study
  7 Introd    |         which I no longer feel. I know that there are thorns in
  8 Introd    |         with white gloves on, who know Sanskrit, and who fling
  9 I         |       still further, and I do not know what to say to you unless
 10 II        |       1864~Dear Flaubert,~I don’t know whether you lent me or gave
 11 VI        |         would say—I would like to know if you permit me to put
 12 XIII      |       explore Rouen which I don’t know, or show it to me if you
 13 XV        |         me wherever I am. I don’t know yet. If my children want
 14 XVI       |           has prevented me; for I know how to make light only of
 15 XVI       |   justifies all.~It is for him to know after a little experience,
 16 XVI       |         spite of the rain.~Do you know that, while there has been
 17 XVI       |           the fairy play. I don’t know with whom you have written
 18 XVI       |      acquainted with it, I should know how to accomplish for you
 19 XVII      |       between ourselves, does not know me at all, no matter what
 20 XVII      |           your grandchild) that I know few men less vicious than
 21 XX        |          be explained if we could know our real genealogy. For,
 22 XXI       |        too much. Anyhow, I do not know, and I could not, like you,
 23 XXI       |           of that, you will never know disgust and lassitude, and
 24 XXI       |           renewed; WHERE? I shall know that before you do, and,
 25 XXII      |           day after that. Now you know where to find me, for I
 26 XXV       |     Despruneaux in person. If you know a judge or two,—or if your
 27 XXVI      |     numerous and so rare?~I don’t know what sort of feeling I have
 28 XXVII     |       play. He wants very much to know it. You have only to present
 29 XXXII     |         that will pass. You don’t know what it is to stay a whole
 30 XXXII     |        waterfall. Ah! I certainly know THE AGONIES OF STYLE.~In
 31 XXXIII    |    question for us artists, is to know if abstinence strengthens
 32 XXXIII    |   difference. You, I don’t really know if by method or by instinct,
 33 XXXIII    |         any or if he ought not to know them.~You always astonish
 34 XXXIII    |         great wisdom saves us; we know how to say to ourselves, “
 35 XXXIV     |         personal memories.~Do you know an actress at the Odeon
 36 XXXV      |       Where is the model? I don’t know, I have never REALLY known
 37 XXXV      |           feel it but I shouldn’t know how to show it.~But one
 38 XXXVII    |        ones.~I don’t in the least know how to set to work to write,
 39 XLI       |         and then I should need to know everything. In any case
 40 XLI       |            Et in Arcadia ego, you know, I love you, dear friend
 41 XLII      |        weakness, or work, I don’t know. I don’t think of it any
 42 XLII      |         very much, and as I don’t know if I am going to be in shape
 43 XLII      |     finding the road? Ah! who can know?~And the novel, is it getting
 44 XLII      |        and at Paris, one does not know what one is, one forgets
 45 XLII      |        good.~The cheeses? I don’t know at all, it seems to me that
 46 XLIII     |        sadder sometimes? I do not know.~Life is not easy! What
 47 XLIII     |         and extravagant affair! I know something about that. One
 48 XLIV      |       picture which one would not know what to do with and which
 49 XLIV      |           and which one would not know where to place with due
 50 XLIV      |       owned it. One is content to know that they are in some temple
 51 XLIV      |       repeat to you.~Besides, you know them, but you never pay
 52 XLIV      |           am perhaps; but I don’t know anything about it, never
 53 XLV       |           charming being? I don’t know. What is certain is that
 54 XLVI      |     worrying about money? I don’t know what that is, since I have
 55 XLVII     |           would not be correct, I know that, but between troubadours
 56 XLVII     |        house. I am annoyed not to know it when I think of you.
 57 XLVII     |            whose real biography I know very imperfectly. All I
 58 XLVII     |           very imperfectly. All I know of him is that he is honest
 59 XLVIII    |         He would not refuse me, I know. He even offers it to me.
 60 XLVIII    |          still fresh. But I don’t know why I talk to you of things
 61 XLIX      |         has been very shrewd, you know.~You tell your son Maurice
 62 LV        |       infinite. One would have to know all sciences and all arts
 63 LVI       |         am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so
 64 LVI       |         which open to you I don’t know what infinity. You ask if
 65 LVI       |        learning what one does not know, and one happiness: loving
 66 LIX       |           my dear old fellow, you know it. My ideal would be to
 67 LX        |          something interesting. I know so well how to live OUTSIDE
 68 LX        |         propos of gypsies, do you know that there are gypsies of
 69 LX        |      speaks to them. I don’t even know what to call them. The name
 70 LX        |        talk with a group. I don’t know what happened. I fancy that
 71 LX        |       perhaps longer, but I don’t know. I embrace you tenderly,
 72 LXI       |           these crises of work; I know them! Here am I back again
 73 LXIII     |           from its dust. I do not know even if my letter will reach
 74 LXIV      |        answer me by telegram. You know that with me there is no
 75 LXIV      |         no need of explanation: I know every hindrance in life
 76 LXIV      |           blame the hearts that I know.—I wish that, right away,
 77 LXV       |       19th in Paris that I do not know if I shall have the time.
 78 LXVII     |           going well, but I don’t know anything about it. I have
 79 LXIX      |           splendid, as you are. I know that the worthy man will
 80 LXIX      |          see someone who does not know how to say anything quickly,
 81 LXXI      |         to Croisset together. You know very well that I am very
 82 LXXII     |          reproach you for I don’t know how. I have scribbled a
 83 LXXVI     |          old heart which does not know the flight of years.~G.
 84 LXXVIII   |       Whether I see you or not, I know that two old troubadours
 85 LXXX      |         inconvenience yourself. I know Rouen, I know that there
 86 LXXX      |         yourself. I know Rouen, I know that there are carriages
 87 LXXXI     |           to for two days. Do you know that you are INACCESSIBLE
 88 LXXXV     |         Marie et Maxime. One must know that to have an idea of
 89 LXXXVI    |         the real language. Do you know that they have quite a Gallic
 90 LXXXVI    |      Normandy still more. You may know that comedian. His name
 91 LXXXVI    |          some one whom you do not know, went so far as not to like
 92 LXXXVII   |           It is not impossible. I know Freville. He is an excellent
 93 LXXXVIII  |        attach myself, and I don’t know anything that goes on in
 94 LXXXIX    |         rage any more, I laugh; I know too much of all that to
 95 XC        |        egotism; in short, I don’t know what it is, and there you
 96 XC        |        receive. A person whom you know, whom I love greatly, Celimene, [
 97 XC        |     religious enthusiast, I don’t know what, imbecile! I have exceeded
 98 XCIII     |         propos of Vendee, did you know that her paternal grandfather
 99 XCIV      |           Bicetre.~I don’t at all know what the performance will
100 XCIV      |           will be. If one did not know the prodigies of harmony
101 XCVI      |      everything, every one that I know a little and that I study
102 XCVI      |         which I no longer feel. I know that there are thorns in
103 XCVI      |      against it. So that we don’t know yet if we shall make money
104 XCVII     |          you think that I did not know it? I confess to you even (
105 XCVIII    |       judges one’s work better. I know that. Say yes to your old
106 XCIX      |        which is very silly. But I know myself: if I go to your
107 XCIX      |           the end of May. I don’t know anything that goes on and
108 XCIX      |          Latin. Therefore I don’t know a word of it any more! I
109 C         |         you from your ink-well. I know him personally very little,
110 C         |     personally very little, but I know his work by heart. What
111 C         |          upon me; but I, I do not know how to be “careful” and
112 CI        |        and those people who don’t know my life attributed that
113 CII       |          always yourself! I don’t know anything better, and I love
114 CIII      |     rehearsing fails. As I do not know how to WISH my colleagues
115 CIII      |        head; there you have it.~I know nothing, nothing at all
116 CIII      |         time to time, I would not know if Isidore were still among
117 CIII      |         As for me, I avoid him. I know him too well. I love the
118 CIV       |          Princess Mathilde, and I know thoroughly the story of
119 CIV       |     opinion on it, if you wish to know it, is this. The first wrong
120 CIV       |      really artists? Where do you know a criticism? Who is there
121 CVI       |         as Turin today and do not know yet what I know. How this
122 CVI       |        and do not know yet what I know. How this telegraph changes
123 CVIII     |           it to me. Shall I never know it? My letter is still waiting
124 CX        |          sous I can lend you. You know that you offered once to
125 CXI       |      which will be called I don’t know what. I am a little tired,
126 CXV       |          fact that I don’t really know whom to listen to.~Your
127 CXVI      |         don’t disturb yourself, I know very well that one does
128 CXXIII    |          you PASSIONATELY, as you know.~
129 CXXV      |       GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thursday~I know nothing either of Chilly
130 CXXVIII   |      delightful lodgings. I don’t know the address although I have
131 CXXX      |        tomorrow, they will let me know where and when we ought
132 CXXXI     |          time ago. Why did we not know anything about him?~In short,
133 CXXXII    |       make you ill, don’t come, I know very well that you love
134 CXXXIII   |        arranged that way; I don’t know if I am making a mistake.
135 CXXXIII   |          in Paris, and I, I don’t know when I shall go. The success
136 CXXXIV    |         at Fontainebleau does not know on what grass she walks
137 CXXXIV    |        your success; but I hardly know what is going on, politics
138 CXXXIV    |           It is my right.~I don’t know exactly when, but during
139 CXXXV     |         Levy appears satisfied.~I know that the bourgeois of Rouen
140 CXXXVII   |       better idea, I really don’t know the importance and the credit
141 CXXXIX    |        are too simple. You do not know how original your book is,
142 CXLI      |         in a pet with Girardin. I know very well that I am not
143 CXLIII    |      dreaded it for your trip. We know you got to Chateauroux all
144 CXLIV     |   substitute at La Chatre.~Do you know M. Roy, the head of the
145 CXLIV     |          troubles him. He doesn’t know if he is a poet or a realist;
146 CXLIV     |        said. It is not useless to know the opinion of good people
147 CXLV      |         acquainted with myself, I know what I lack! And I am enormously
148 CLIV      |        step.~—But I would like to know the truth, however! Do you
149 CLIV      |        the truth, however! Do you know someone who...then Madame
150 CLV       |         backward; I am waiting, I know that they will return.~Affectionate
151 CLVI      |          Nohant, 19 March, 1870~I know, my friend, that you are
152 CLVI      |        are very devoted to her. I know that she [Footnote: Letter
153 CLVI      |           her; that is all that I know of her private life. I have
154 CLVI      |          The public, who does not know in what invention consists,
155 CLVII     |   sentimentale was this: “Did you know X, an Italian, a professor
156 CLIX      |        FANCY for you and wants to know you. He is not a physician
157 CLIX      |         than a physician, I don’t know what exactly, A SEEKER—after
158 CLXII     |         you on Saturday: so now I know that everything is going
159 CLXV      |          am interested in! Do you know in this Paris, which is
160 CLXV      |       whist after dinner. I don’t know one of them who would be
161 CLXV      |          nothing more.~The more I know you, yourself, the more
162 CLXVII    |         sun and the wind. I don’t know where I get the courage
163 CLXVIII   |          and Tourgueneff, I don’t know a living being to whom to
164 CLXVIII   |            for the question is to know if the moi persists. The
165 CLXIX     |           let those who were left know that they were happy, and
166 CLXXIII   |         Perhaps tomorrow we shall know that we have beaten, and
167 CLXXIV    |         again on Wednesday. Now I know the Parisian to the very
168 CLXXVII   |           news from you. I didn’t know where you were.~Here it
169 CLXXIX    |           and the others?~I don’t know how it is that I am not
170 CLXXIX    |        Loire. Where is it? Do you know anything about it? What
171 CLXXXIII  |         with white gloves on, who know Sanskrit and who fling themselves
172 CLXXXIV   |        party humbugs. But I don’t know if you are of my opinion,
173 CLXXXIV   |            but can he and will he know how to preserve the principle
174 CLXXXVI   |           and of urbanity?~Do you know the worst of all that? IT
175 CLXXXVII  |    weakness of heart that I don’t know how to overcome. I cannot
176 CLXXXVII  |        till mine gets well, and I know that I shall have to help
177 CLXXXVIII |            provided the mandarins know something and even that
178 CLXXXVIII |      something and even that they know many things. The people
179 CLXXXVIII |      matter whether many peasants know how to read and listen no
180 CLXXXIX   |       come from Paris and I don’t know to whom to talk. I am choking.
181 CXC       |          created by the Empire to know what is possible and what
182 CXC       |         Rigault and company. They know how much people like that
183 CXCI      |        which is charming. I don’t know if he is still director,
184 CXCII     |           love you, that is all I know. My children say the same.
185 CXCIII    |        are all going off, I don’t know where. Have you more courage
186 CXCVI     |         at the Odeon, as far as I know. Why don’t you consider
187 CXCVI     |          but inflexible. I do not know even if I shall go to Paris
188 CXCVII    |          which is impossible, you know very well, I could not approve
189 CXCVII    |   illusory inequalities. I do not know if your ancestors were high
190 CXCVII    |   yesterday and many of those who know how to read and write, have
191 CXCVII    |         have become catchwords? I know only wise and foolish, innocent
192 CXCVII    |           opinion has no value.~I know sweet, generous and timorous
193 CXCVII    |        world was mistaken, let us know what we want today. If it
194 CXCVII    |       take root on barricades, we know that now! It is immediately
195 CXCIX     |         years every Frenchman can know how to read. Do you think
196 CCVII     |          you about, that I hardly know where to begin: (1) Your
197 CCIX      |           January, 1872~I did not know about all that affair at
198 CCXII     |      enough philosophic spirit to know that such a thing is very
199 CCXVI     |           say to you that I don’t know where to begin. Oh! how
200 CCXVII    |      violent sore throat that you know well, since you have just
201 CCXVII    |          we want her to, we don’t know how, without seeming to
202 CCXVII    |        for your mother? Perhaps I know of such a one. Must she
203 CCXVIII   |           think that the lady you know would suit us.~And thereupon
204 CCXXI     |        would like a word so as to know if you have the courage
205 CCXXI     |     anxiety, I am sure of that. I know the sort of dismay that
206 CCXXII    |           that sad house. I don’t know anything about your plans,
207 CCXXIII   |    deciding on the future, I must know what I have to live on,
208 CCXXV     |           be a long time before I know what I have to live on.
209 CCXXV     |          me less and less.~Do you know that my poor Theo is very
210 CCXXVII   |         in Croisset, but I do not know if I can. I have taken Aurore’
211 CCXXX     |     categorically, so that we may know what you will do.~
212 CCXXXI    |          trips there; but I don’t know Luchon. Is it lovely, too?
213 CCXXXII   |        Dickens’s Pickwick. Do you know that? There are superb passages
214 CCXXXII   |           myself in books, do you know of any dealer in Paris who
215 CCXXXIII  |          Mario Proth, and I don’t know where he finds them. When
216 CCXXXV    |        but still love me.~I don’t know if I shall find you in Paris
217 CCXXXVI   |           the profession. I don’t know if you were at Magny’s one
218 CCXXXVI   |            I am miserly because I know that I am extravagant when
219 CCXXXVI   |          so much to do!...I don’t know anything and I don’t learn
220 CCXXXVI   |     understand fascinates her, to know repels her. She is as lazy
221 CCXXXVII  |           this aspect, you cannot know me. I object.~Although I
222 CCXXXVIII |        them, you admire them, you know that you are adored here,
223 CCXXXVIII |        yourself in him.~What do I know? To live in oneself is bad.
224 CCXXXIX   |           of what interests me? I know some thinkers (at least
225 CCXXXIX   |           fantastic. Why? I don’t know. But it is so. Explain the
226 CCXXXIX   |  ecclesiastical that people don’t know. We shall talk about that
227 CCXL      |           say you have defied.— I know that the feminine is worth
228 CCXL      |       unhappy.~I have been, and I know enough about it; but I forget
229 CCXL      |   literary enough for you here, I know that, but we love, and that
230 CCXLI     |         as Saint Polycarp.~Do you know, in all history, including
231 CCXLIV    |          when shall I go? I don’t know.~I am a little afraid of
232 CCXLV     |         you will be received. You know that he did not want to
233 CCXLV     |           In ten years they won’t know, perhaps, how to make a
234 CCXLIX    |      recollections, so that I may know what mistakes he made and
235 CCL       |           Maurice is at a loss to know how to answer your question.
236 CCL       |         which are not amusing, we know that very well! But why
237 CCLI      |       depths of my being? I don’t know. What is certain, is, that
238 CCLII     |            Now, forget; don’t you know how to forget? You live
239 CCLIV     |         of it. I am sure of it, I know already that it is there.~
240 CCLV      |    General Ferri Pisani, whom you know, who HAS CHARGE at Chateauroux,
241 CCLVIII   |      Nohant, 4 July, 1873~I don’t know where you are at present,
242 CCLVIII   |            Unhappy one! you don’t know the ineffable pleasure of
243 CCLIX     |           for a full year.~Do you know where the great Tourgueneff
244 CCLX      |          I breathe again.~I don’t know whether they talk as much
245 CCLXI     |   transformed later? One does not know ahead, and, with time and
246 CCLXIII   |          in keeping, that I don’t know if it is a fictitious biography
247 CCLXIV    |    changes which he refused. (You know that sometimes Cruchard
248 CCLXVI    |         the better for it.~Do you know what I am going to do to
249 CCLXVI    |       Essai sur l’indifference. I know now, and thoroughly, all
250 CCLXVII   |        far, and too, I am glad to know that I shall soon read Saint-Antoine
251 CCLXVIII  |         it may be, having, as you know, an essential hatred of
252 CCLXXII   |           but I don’t think so! I know the defects of my play better
253 CCLXXII   |           distressed, and I don’t know what to do to soften his
254 CCLXXIII  |           shown me in what. But I know, and that consoles me. What
255 CCLXXIV   |         was a failure. You do not know how much I admired you on
256 CCLXXIV   |    nothing at all on the walls! I know that one critic was enraged
257 CCLXXIV   |           are not like you.—Oh! I know it!—Then you are not surprised,
258 CCLXXV    |         Levy clerks whom I do not know! I remember, as for Levy
259 CCLXXV    |        The fact is, that I do not know how to DO ARTICLES, and
260 CCLXXV    |       play; it is not possible to know if I am mistaken or not.
261 CCLXXV    |          or not. And when shall I know? The day after the first
262 CCLXXV    |         says anything to me: they know that I would not allow it.
263 CCLXXVII  |           my play, I don’t at all know if it is worth anything
264 CCLXXIX   |          by it in advance.~As you know Switzerland, it is useless
265 CCLXXX    |         to do. Criticism does not know anything about it; its business
266 CCLXXX    |          Baudry translation). You know that? An adorable work for
267 CCLXXXI   |      shrewd people who pretend to know all about things. For, in
268 CCLXXXII  |       what a dream.~You doubtless know that once more I am exposing
269 CCLXXXII  |           not prevent him ... You know the rest.~Of course every
270 CCLXXXVII |         stiff, I have ... I don’t know what. Bromide of potassium
271 CCLXXXVII |    endless solitude to go I don’t know where. And it is I who am
272 CCLXXXVII |          art of which he does not know the technique! And then,
273 CCLXXXVIII|          healthy. But I am sad to know that you are bored, suffering,
274 CCLXXXIX  |           when it is published. I know that you do not like to
275 CCXC      |         the more surly you are, I know that you are not rejoicing
276 CCXC      |   language which she does not yet know.~Are you still in Paris
277 CCXCV     |       months, especially, I don’t know what has been the trouble
278 CCXCV     |         root of the matter, and I know many people are in the same
279 CCXCVII   |          in preparation. I do not know at what time in the autumn
280 CCXCVIII  |        coming to the top again! I know that they are rehearsing
281 CCXCVIII  |     Theatre Francais; but I don’t know whether I shall go to see
282 CCXCVIII  | intestinal trouble, that I do not know if I shall ever be strong
283 CCXCVIII  |           upset, and I do not yet know if I shall get over it.
284 CCXCVIII  |      until the last rehearsals. I know my cast, I know that they
285 CCXCVIII  |     rehearsals. I know my cast, I know that they will all do well,
286 CCXCIX    |        good, adorable master.~You know that I have abandoned my
287 CCXCIX    |        boards. That is all that I know about literature.~
288 CCC       |     FINANCE? For my part, I don’t know; I am in relations with
289 CCC       |         me, consolation. I do not know on what our destinies depend;
290 CCC       |           to what I had before.~I know that you criticise the intervention
291 CCCII     |     literature, you want, I don’t know why, to be another man,
292 CCCV      |      Rougon: I am very anxious to know what you think of it.~No,
293 CCCIX     |           brain, so that I do not know at all what I am doing!
294 CCCX      |        article about you. Did you know that? So then, for this
295 CCCXI     |           writing to him and will know soon, shall she tell him
296 CCCXI     |      reading it and that I do not know whether I prefer Jack or