Letter

  1 II        |       March, 1864~Dear Flaubert,~I don’t know whether you lent
  2 V         |       destroyed a great citizen. I don’t need to tell you that
  3 VIII      |          Paris, 17 or 18 May, 1866~Don’t expect me at your house
  4 IX        |           on a play [Footnote: Les Don Juan de village.] by my
  5 X         |       friend, as I’m always out, I don’t want you to come and find
  6 X         |        brother to promise to be at Don Juan. For that I kiss you
  7 XIII      |           me explore Rouen which I don’t know, or show it to me
  8 XV        |          it to me wherever I am. I don’t know yet. If my children
  9 XV        |          dear letter which I kiss. Don’t forget the three leaves
 10 XV        |           the Theatre de Nohant, I don’t want to, it’s too small
 11 XVI       |        propos of the fairy play. I don’t know with whom you have
 12 XVII      |          not the number here and I don’t remember the month.~I
 13 XVIII     |  inconvenience distresses me and I don’t need so much bother in
 14 XVIII     |          it is, and at other times don’t you feel over you the
 15 XX        |          are here. Have courage.~I don’t experience, as you do,
 16 XX        |         categories, adieu, morale!~Don’t you really think that
 17 XXI       |            to let any be lost. You don’t speak to me of the floods,
 18 XXI       |        pass for an imbecile, but I don’t risk anything; I am imbecile
 19 XXI       | unpublished? You are very coy. You don’t find what you do worth
 20 XXI       |      without ideals who get bored, don’t enjoy anything and are
 21 XXI       |            that is inevitable. But don’t abandon them, and always
 22 XXI       |            Turgot to please you. I don’t promise to go as far as
 23 XXIV      |         bit. Shall I survive it? I don’t ardently desire to, above
 24 XXVI      |            numerous and so rare?~I don’t know what sort of feeling
 25 XXVII     |       answered mine. One is happy, don’t you think so, to be able
 26 XXVIII    |        doctrine.~Morality aside, I don’t think that the children
 27 XXIX      |         FLAUBERT 16 November, 1866~Don’t take any further steps.
 28 XXXI      |          other in the old way.~You don’t have to write to me when
 29 XXXI      |            to write to me when you don’t feel like it. No real
 30 XXXII     |            but that will pass. You don’t know what it is to stay
 31 XXXII     |            everything generous and don’t begrudge the giving of
 32 XXXIII    |        makes no difference. You, I don’t really know if by method
 33 XXXIII    |         would do afterwards what I don’t do, what I should do.
 34 XXXIV     |       GEORGE SAND Saturday morning~Don’t bother yourself about
 35 XXXIV     |           develop it in talking. I don’t ask you for copy of course,
 36 XXXV      |           and waking.~As for me, I don’t believe in these Don Juans
 37 XXXV      |           I don’t believe in these Don Juans who are Byrons at
 38 XXXV      |           Byrons at the same time. Don Juan did not make poems
 39 XXXV      |       while.~Where is the model? I don’t know, I have never REALLY
 40 XXXVII    |          at all surprised that you don’t understand my literary
 41 XXXVII    |  understand my literary agonies. I don’t understand them myself.
 42 XXXVII    |  nevertheless, and violent ones.~I don’t in the least know how
 43 XXXVII    |             Happy indeed those who don’t depart from it.~I don’
 44 XXXVII    |            don’t depart from it.~I don’t agree with you that there
 45 XXXVIII   |           into what one writes?” I don’t understand at all, oh!
 46 XXXIX     |      youthful. Those who want them don’t always get them!~When
 47 XLI       |          not receive my note and I don’t understand about it, but
 48 XLI       |           to another public, and I don’t stand in as well with
 49 XLII      |            or weakness, or work, I don’t know. I don’t think of
 50 XLII      |           or work, I don’t know. I don’t think of it any longer.
 51 XLII      |     progressed very much, and as I don’t know if I am going to
 52 XLII      |            me good.~The cheeses? I don’t know at all, it seems
 53 XLII      |         spoke to me of them, but I don’t remember at all. I will
 54 XLIV      |         are they? Are they mine? I don’t recall a single word in
 55 XLIV      |          also, I am perhaps; but I don’t know anything about it,
 56 XLV       |            you and I missed you.~I don’t like to eat alone. I have
 57 XLV       |         man or a charming being? I don’t know. What is certain
 58 XLV       |           sensations about them? I don’t think so, since our individuality
 59 XLV       |          that subject badly. For I don’t see that he is comic:
 60 XLVI      |            worrying about money? I don’t know what that is, since
 61 XLVII     |     readings, probably. Meanwhile, don’t thank him any the less,
 62 XLVII     |       other intimate friend. Come, don’t stand on ceremony!~Between
 63 XLVIII    |          energy TO WISH TO LIVE. I don’t care about it; moving
 64 XLVIII    |  imagination is still fresh. But I don’t know why I talk to you
 65 XLVIII    |            in the fulness of life. Don’t let’s talk about them
 66 XLVIII    |            Holy Virgin. At least I don’t think so. I can not find
 67 XLIX      |            with it! For the rest I don’t find it easy to live.
 68 LIV       |          you are well and that you don’t forget him.~
 69 LVI       |            shall be well advanced, don’t you think so? Well, these
 70 LVI       |            and which open to you I don’t know what infinity. You
 71 LVI       |         INFINITE; my heavens, yes, don’t doubt it, it is his destiny,
 72 LVII      |          of the war any more, they don’t talk of anything.~The
 73 LX        |      yourself. I am very free. So, don’t disturb yourself, and
 74 LX        |       thirty-six plans also, but I don’t incline to any one; what
 75 LX        |          any one speaks to them. I don’t even know what to call
 76 LX        |            to talk with a group. I don’t know what happened. I
 77 LX        |         stay perhaps longer, but I don’t know. I embrace you tenderly,
 78 LX        |            little, I beg of you. I don’t fear anything for the
 79 LX        |          for forty-eight hours and don’t want any one to speak
 80 LXII      |       Mademoiselle Merquem.] but I don’t see it yet very clearly;
 81 LXII      |       shall not see her long, If I don’t think I am destined to
 82 LXIV      |            there together. If not, don’t bother about me. I go
 83 LXVII     |     Bois-Dore is going well, but I don’t know anything about it.
 84 LXIX      |        happy if you would! But you don’t love us enough for that,
 85 LXXI      |           positive passions. But I don’t see simplicity anywhere
 86 LXXII     |           won’t reproach you for I don’t know how. I have scribbled
 87 LXXIV     |        Nohant, 31 December, 1867~I don’t agree with you at all
 88 LXXV      |          the end of the month. You don’t tell me when you return
 89 LXXVI     |            But what a fine winter, don’t you think so? Isn’t it
 90 LXXIX     |            dear Croisset. But then don’t go on Thursday, I am giving
 91 LXXXI     |        with you; if it is too late don’t wait for me, I lunch on
 92 LXXXI     |            you on Sunday then, and don’t inconvenience yourself.~
 93 LXXXIV    |        that I choose my milieu and don’t go to the Senate nor to
 94 LXXXVI    |         GENIUS, as they say. But I don’t understand him. He is
 95 LXXXVIII  |       which I attach myself, and I don’t know anything that goes
 96 LXXXIX    |          much to rage about. But I don’t rage any more, I laugh;
 97 XC        |           was egotism; in short, I don’t know what it is, and there
 98 XC        |            religious enthusiast, I don’t know what, imbecile! I
 99 XC        |            against THE OTHER. They don’t like her at all. As for
100 XCI       |          as much as I can. But you don’t give me any details about
101 XCIV      |            escaped from Bicetre.~I don’t at all know what the performance
102 XCVI      |        also against it. So that we don’t know yet if we shall make
103 XCIX      |           before the end of May. I don’t know anything that goes
104 XCIX      |          day in Latin. Therefore I don’t know a word of it any
105 CI        |            Now, let us talk.~No, I don’t get into a heat, for I
106 CI        |        girl,” and those people who don’t know my life attributed
107 CI        |          de la cite d’Aoste, finds Don Quichotte tedious, etc.).~
108 CII       |       large doll for Aurore; but I don’t want to turn in without
109 CII       |          and be always yourself! I don’t know anything better,
110 CIII      |        Paris. They liked it; but I don’t want them to play it in
111 CV        |        Heavens, what fine weather! Don’t you enjoy it, at least
112 CVII      |      talent?~I am just now reading Don Quichotte again. What a
113 CXI       |     comique which will be called I don’t know what. I am a little
114 CXV       |            for it is a fact that I don’t really know whom to listen
115 CXVI      |        troubadour before that. But don’t disturb yourself, I know
116 CXVIII    |         left me saying: Be easy, I don’t say no. Should the book
117 CXIX      |      pleasure to hearing THE REST. Don’t forget the manuscript.~
118 CXXIII    |          have promised to come. We don’t forget it, we count on
119 CXXIV     |          than I used to be. People don’t like such as I am very
120 CXXV      |           with me,—oh! but no, you don’t travel about; well, we
121 CXXVIII   |        your delightful lodgings. I don’t know the address although
122 CXXIX     |            myself together enough.~Don’t be disturbed about your
123 CXXXII    |          is going to make you ill, don’t come, I know very well
124 CXXXIII   |         not to arouse envy and you don’t care, do you? Nor I either
125 CXXXIII   |            is arranged that way; I don’t know if I am making a
126 CXXXIII   |          winter in Paris, and I, I don’t know when I shall go.
127 CXXXIV    |           think. It is my right.~I don’t know exactly when, but
128 CXXXV     |         Duranty. I most profoundly don’t care a fig! but that does
129 CXXXVII   |            a better idea, I really don’t know the importance and
130 CXXXIX    |         successes. The clever ones don’t like the successes of
131 CXXXIX    |         the successes of others. I don’t pay attention to the malicious;
132 CXL       |          sad way; too much theory!~Don’t be troubled by all that
133 CXL       |         that and keep straight on. Don’t attempt a system, obey
134 CXLVII    |         Nothing if it is yes. So I don’t want you to write to me.
135 CXLVIII   |       letter from Edme Simonnet)~I don’t see you, you come to the
136 CXLVIII   |         you are there, I hurry and don’t find you. Do set a day
137 CXLIX     |       couple of days.~Do get well, don’t go out, at least unless
138 CLIV      |           Cornu mentioned me.~—Oh, don’t say that I spoke to you
139 CLV       |          in the midst of all that, don’t forget that we love you
140 CLVI      |    servants and bad friends.~But I don’t write satires: I am ignorant
141 CLVI      |         the meaning of the word. I don’t write PORTRAITS either;
142 CLVII     |          crowd. You understand me, don’t you?~But enough of this.
143 CLIX      |           more than a physician, I don’t know what exactly, A SEEKER—
144 CLXIV     |         when one cares for that; I don’t dare to say how very simple
145 CLXV      |           of whist after dinner. I don’t know one of them who would
146 CLXVII    |            the sun and the wind. I don’t know where I get the courage
147 CLXVIII   |        from you and Tourgueneff, I don’t know a living being to
148 CLXVIII   |           the end of this month. I don’t think that the hope of
149 CLXXIII   |      throats for reasons that they don’t understand! Here we are
150 CLXXVI    |             That is their dream.~I don’t think the siege of Paris
151 CLXXVII   |       little, a very little bit.~I don’t think that there is in
152 CLXXVII   |         they abhor us so fiercely? Don’t you feel overwhelmed by
153 CLXXIX    |         Maurice, and the others?~I don’t know how it is that I
154 CLXXX     |       escape the next catastrophe.~Don’t let’s say that it is impossible;
155 CLXXX     |         say that it is impossible; don’t let’s think it. Don’t
156 CLXXX     |  impossible; don’t let’s think it. Don’t let’s despair about France.
157 CLXXXI    |          Nohant, 4 February, 1871.~Don’t you receive my letters,
158 CLXXXIII  |         its unhealthfulness! But I don’t care a hang for that.~
159 CLXXXIV   |       greedy, party humbugs. But I don’t know if you are of my
160 CLXXXVII  |           weakness of heart that I don’t know how to overcome.
161 CLXXXVII  |        with too much stoicism.~You don’t tell me in what state
162 CLXXXIX   |         just come from Paris and I don’t know to whom to talk.
163 CXC       |        less the ravages of time. I don’t care for that, the heart
164 CXC       |           You foretold that, and I don’t doubt it; but after the
165 CXCI      |          that I consider charming. Don’t I want to read you that
166 CXCI      |         not going to Nohant, for I don’t care to go further I away
167 CXCI      |        lords, which is charming. I don’t know if he is still director,
168 CXCII     |           and you need me, and you don’t come see me! That is not
169 CXCII     |          as troubled as you, and I don’t dare to talk, nor to think,
170 CXCIII    |          my dear old troubadour?~I don’t write to you, I am quite
171 CXCIII    |            we are all going off, I don’t know where. Have you more
172 CXCIV     |            I need you very much.~I don’t dare to leave my poor
173 CXCVI     |       Odeon, as far as I know. Why don’t you consider the Theatre
174 CCI       |      theatre, the same thing. They don’t bother about the play,
175 CCII      |           sustains me, or rather I don’t need to be sustained,
176 CCVI      |   troubadour now and always, but I don’t want you to answer me,
177 CCX       |            a sacred thing with me, don’t disavow it.~Today I am
178 CCXI      |          as well stay at home.~You don’t tell me of your mother;
179 CCXVI     |        things to say to you that I don’t know where to begin. Oh!
180 CCXVII    |       friend of my heart.~Heavens! don’t work nor sit up too much,
181 CCXVII    |            that we want her to, we don’t know how, without seeming
182 CCXVIII   |      doubtless with heart trouble, don’t you think so? Still another
183 CCXIX     |      numbers a week in le Temps, I don’t see where I shall publish
184 CCXIX     |        Revue des Deux Mondes, they don’t want me to write criticism;
185 CCXXII    |            am wondering too if you don’t like it better to be left
186 CCXXII    |        once into that sad house. I don’t know anything about your
187 CCXXII    |         put them at your disposal. Don’t feel constrained with
188 CCXXVIII  |           being finished. However, don’t come if your cough continues.
189 CCXXXI    |         frantic trips there; but I don’t know Luchon. Is it lovely,
190 CCXXXII   |         with that establishment, I don’t give a whoop.~As I am
191 CCXXXII   |          much reading, and since I don’t want to ruin myself in
192 CCXXXIII  |       things to Mario Proth, and I don’t know where he finds them.
193 CCXXXIII  |          written documents. We are Don Quixotes, my old troubadour;
194 CCXXXV    |            me but still love me.~I don’t know if I shall find you
195 CCXXXVI   |       lamps, and I had PRINCIPLES. Don’t laugh, very candid, childish
196 CCXXXVI   |         those of the profession. I don’t know if you were at Magny’
197 CCXXXVI   |        there to embrace you, but I don’t dare to spend the money,
198 CCXXXVI   |            have so much to do!...I don’t know anything and I don’
199 CCXXXVI   |          don’t know anything and I don’t learn anything, for I
200 CCXXXIX   |         life is not amusing.~No, I don’t think that HAPPINESS IS
201 CCXXXIX   |           one get excited about?~I don’t think, however, that I
202 CCXXXIX   |           I find fantastic. Why? I don’t know. But it is so. Explain
203 CCXXXIX   |         ecclesiastical that people don’t know. We shall talk about
204 CCXL      |        Nohant, 22 November, 1872~I don’t think that I shall go
205 CCXL      |            because you are sad and don’t want to look at the sun.
206 CCXL      |          As for those about whom I don’t care, I don’t care either
207 CCXL      |         about whom I don’t care, I don’t care either about the
208 CCXLI     |          am very curious about it.~Don’t worry any more about your
209 CCXLII    |          it in your portfolio. You don’t like Levy, but there are
210 CCXLII    |           but in the mean time you don’t want to do anything to
211 CCXLIII   |           the commonest reader. (I don’t think that the common
212 CCXLIII   |   strongminded, too intelligent! I don’t like the episode of the
213 CCXLIV    |            angry at all that and I don’t talk about it. That is
214 CCXLIV    |           I’ve emptied my bag, and don’t let us talk of it again
215 CCXLIV    |             But when shall I go? I don’t know.~I am a little afraid
216 CCXLIV    |            for business reasons.~I don’t think that they will play
217 CCXLIV    |            you die laughing. But I don’t agree to all that, and
218 CCXLIV    |       strange things. As for me, I don’t care if they stand in
219 CCXLV     |           Is there at this time, I don’t say, admiration or sympathy,
220 CCXLVI    |           often on your account; I don’t want you to exhaust yourself.
221 CCXLVI    |   development, you are too, if you don’t heat the oven of your
222 CCXLVI    |            you wish you were dead? Don’t you believe then in your
223 CCXLVII   |    December 1872~Dear good master,~Don’t take seriously the exaggerations
224 CCXLVII   |        exaggerations about my IRE. Don’t believe that I am counting “
225 CCXLIX    |     reading chemistry now (which I don’t understand a bit), and
226 CCXLIX    |          What sorts of information don’t I need, for the book that
227 CCLI      |          the depths of my being? I don’t know. What is certain,
228 CCLII     |          it yourself. Now, forget; don’t you know how to forget?
229 CCLII     |           two or three good souls? Don’t you love me too, and wouldn’
230 CCLIII    |        framed. But nowadays people don’t look so closely.~
231 CCLVIII   |    FLAUBERT Nohant, 4 July, 1873~I don’t know where you are at
232 CCLVIII   |      frantically? Unhappy one! you don’t know the ineffable pleasure
233 CCLVIII   |         the trouble of being said!~Don’t believe a word of that,
234 CCLX      |        quieter. I breathe again.~I don’t know whether they talk
235 CCLXII    |         produce a year from now. I don’t think the thing is quite
236 CCLXIII   |            much in keeping, that I don’t know if it is a fictitious
237 CCLXIII   |         the dark side of things; I don’t see anything, but I perceive
238 CCLXIV    |            Sexe faible.~However, I don’t care, I am so eager to
239 CCLXVII   |           touch with your play and don’t get ill this hateful winter.~
240 CCLXVIII  |          that distresses me. For I don’t want to please the political
241 CCLXXI    |            published in book form.~Don’t you delay to give me the
242 CCLXXI    |            the news on Thursday, I don’t need to tell you that
243 CCLXXII   |      before the real public, but I don’t think so! I know the defects
244 CCLXXII   |         play, is distressed, and I don’t know what to do to soften
245 CCLXXII   |      master, do not pity me, for I don’t feel pitiable.~P. S.—A
246 CCLXXIII  |           at with two good people. Don’t fear that they are too
247 CCLXXIV   |             and the first night of Don Juan de Village, which was
248 CCLXXIV   |            the comparison! Well, I don’t bat an eye-lid. That is
249 CCLXXVII  |        working still on my play, I don’t at all know if it is worth
250 CCLXXVII  |           it is worth anything and don’t worry about it. I shall
251 CCLXXIX   |            return of the Empire. I don’t believe in it! However...
252 CCLXXIX   |           and calming my nerves! I don’t think that the remedy
253 CCLXXX    |           can no more. I love you; don’t have black ideas, and
254 CCLXXXI   |         too much faith in you.~You don’t tell me how your play
255 CCLXXXII  |        amazes me. But, I decidedly don’t bat an optic, and the
256 CCLXXXVI  |         despairing; for my part, I don’t believe that: I believe
257 CCLXXXVI  |        citizens. And how about me, don’t you think that I need
258 CCLXXXVI  |          that is not yet finished? Don’t you love anyone, not even
259 CCLXXXVII |            not stiff, I have ... I don’t know what. Bromide of
260 CCLXXXVII |           endless solitude to go I don’t know where. And it is
261 CCLXXXVIII|            lived an athletic life.~Don’t sulk then about the very
262 CCLXXXIX  |           Nohant, 25th March, 1875~Don’t be worried about me, my
263 CCXCV     |          six months, especially, I don’t know what has been the
264 CCXCV     |  powerlessness adds to my chagrin.~Don’t tell me again that imbecility
265 CCXCVI    |         silent, dear friend. And I don’t want you to stop writing
266 CCXCVIII  |            Theatre Francais; but I don’t know whether I shall go
267 CCC       |            FINANCE? For my part, I don’t know; I am in relations
268 CCCII     |            doctrine. Not at all, I don’t think of such a thing.
269 CCCII     |         the true, the beautiful.~I don’t say that humanity is on
270 CCCII     |            literature, you want, I don’t know why, to be another
271 CCCIV     |     insight into human feelings. I don’t mind his out-of-date reasonings
272 CCCXIII   |            a thing very well done.~Don’t you agree with me that
273 CCCXVIII  |           or four years. Not less!~Don’t leave me so long without