Letter

  1 Introd   |            ridicule. Flaubert seems to say in every page of his work: ‘
  2 Introd   |         marriage.~In her middle period—say from 1838 to 1848—of which
  3 Introd   |             meaning of Indiana, let us say, are personal to George
  4 Introd   |               1789. He found, shall we say? what he was looking for—
  5 Introd   |                are great egotists. You say that I love them too well;
  6 Introd   |                 He is imbecile, people say; no, he is a child in prosperity,
  7 Introd   |            stop loving? You want me to say that I have been mistaken
  8 Introd   |          humanity. ... The people, you say! The people is yourself
  9 I        |              and I do not know what to say to you unless it be that
 10 I        |              envelope. But, strange to say, at the same time, I received
 11 III      |              the fatted calf. And they say that intelligence is to
 12 VI       |               subject—as Goulard would say—I would like to know if
 13 X        |          sensible pleasure’ as used to say, as would have said, alas,
 14 XVI      |             plagues of the future.~You say US a propos of the fairy
 15 XVII     |        chastity. We shall have much to say about it to each other (
 16 XVII     |              me, not for a day, as you say, but for a week at least.
 17 XIX      |              on my wall, being able to say, as did M. de Talleyrand
 18 XX       |              where it lies, that is to say in shadows and folly, as
 19 XXI      |              brother who often used to say “at the time when I was
 20 XXI      |             and I could not, like you, say, “I possess the past.”~But
 21 XXI      |            LIVES AGAIN? If you dare to say that to the Smart Set, you
 22 XXI      |            seculorum.~I have heard you say, “I write for ten or twelve
 23 XXI      |            physical strength and would say to you: “Come let’s go to
 24 XXIII    |               GIVE ME COURAGE, as they say here, to read to you my
 25 XXXI     |               it will bring me luck to say good evening to my dear
 26 XXXI     |               affair. But as for me, I say that SHE HAS SOME GOOD POINTS,
 27 XXXIII   |      spiritualist nor materialist, you say, but one should be a naturalist.
 28 XXXIII   |                into weakness,—You will say, “There is time for everything
 29 XXXIII   |               saves us; we know how to say to ourselves, “Well, even
 30 XXXV     |                would be a good deal to say on all that, my comrade.
 31 XXXV     |                My Cascaret, that is to say, the fiance in question,
 32 XXXV     |              brain is very feeble. You say to develop one’s self in
 33 XXXV     |                and Byron made, so they say, very poor love. He must
 34 XXXVII   |               but which I swallow. Why say them, in fact! The first
 35 XL       |            from the heart.” I meant to say: not put one’s personality
 36 XLIV     |                IT, my old cure used to say, CAN NOT LAST. I received
 37 XLIV     |              all that she knows how to say while laughing like a crazy
 38 XLVII    |                am in Paris, that is to say from the 20th to the 23rd
 39 XLVII    |                virgin! He regrets, you say, “what is the least regrettable,
 40 XLVIII   |                reject monstrosities. I say that the hideous old man
 41 XLVIII   |             their enemies. But what we say between ourselves is buried,
 42 LVI      |          cowards. That disappears, you say? But only to recommence!
 43 LVI      |               it is worth more than to say mass and to ring the bell
 44 LVII     |               and we alone, that is to say the literary men, who are
 45 LVII     |              who are the people, or to say it better: the tradition
 46 LIX      | extraordinarily well.~I shall then not say adieu, but au revoir, as
 47 LX       |           relative truth.~But why do I say this to you? Because it
 48 LX       |               to meet myself. I should say that one troubadour is enough
 49 LX       |              of the shoulders as if to say, “What do we care?” I spoke
 50 LXVIII   |               be the case. What do you say? For, with all that goes
 51 LXIX     |               who does not know how to say anything quickly, and who,
 52 LXIX     |            love one another very much. Say yes!~I embrace you. And
 53 LXX      |               ma Normandie, that is to say, my great, dear heart’s
 54 LXXI     |            week from today, that is to say, from the 7th to the 10th
 55 LXXI     |                dear master, that is to say, very tenderly.~Here is
 56 LXXII    |           TAPPED at your study door to say to you: “It is I.” Or else
 57 LXXIII   |               it is not good of you to say that I do not think of “
 58 LXXV     |              summer of 1869.~I did not say it was necessary to suppress
 59 LXXVI    |                 What luck if you could say as much!—But what a fine
 60 LXXIX    |             would detain you by force. Say yes, at once. I embrace
 61 LXXXV    |                I feel them, that is to say, as I think they are. Is
 62 LXXXV    |              irritates me less, when I say to myself that it pleases
 63 LXXXVI   |         rhetorician of GENIUS, as they say. But I don’t understand
 64 LXXXVI   |           GENEROUS sentiments. One can say a word more or less without
 65 LXXXVII  |               but I do not like him to say it. (That is a part of my
 66 LXXXVIII |             Nohant, or elsewhere? They say that Cadio is now being
 67 LXXXVIII |          fallen out with Chilly?) They say that Thuillier will make
 68 LXXXVIII |            takes courage to venture to say even hesitatingly, that
 69 XCVI     |            best are great egoists. You say that I like them too well;
 70 XCVI     |                me, when money comes, I say, “So much the better,” without
 71 XCVI     |             and if it does not come, I say, “So much the worse,” without
 72 XCVII    |              ages, no matter what they say. I have re-discovered in
 73 XCVII    |              more to write, that is to say, still six good months of
 74 XCVIII   |          Nohant, 20 November, 1868~You say to me, “When shall we see
 75 XCVIII   |               wants you to, and if you say no, you will disappoint
 76 XCVIII   |              work better. I know that. Say yes to your old troubadour,
 77 XCVIII   |           embrace you six times if you say yes.~G. Sand~
 78 XCIX     |           distracted with my desire to say “yes.” It makes me seem
 79 C        |               There is nothing more to say; but one may well be distressed
 80 C        |            world. In spite of what you say about it, art could well
 81 CV       |                recognition, that is to say, submission that she exacts,
 82 CV       |              we aren’t so foolish!~You say very good things about criticism.
 83 CV       |              But in order to do as you say, there must be artists,
 84 CVI      |             fight the bad. What do you say?~I embrace you and ask you
 85 CVII     |                Tuesday night~What do I say about it, dear master? Should
 86 CVII     |             Histoire de ma vie. What I say is true, since minds quite
 87 CX       |           expect to stay in Paris. You say that you are paying bills
 88 CXVIII   |               saying: Be easy, I don’t say no. Should the book succeed
 89 CXXXII   |               and Berton at Magny’s to say farewell. If you can come,
 90 CXXXIII  |               be furious, and you will say: “Come weal, come woe!”
 91 CXXXIV   |           Balzac and truer, that is to say more faithful to the truth
 92 CXXXIV   |             should be angry and should say what I think. It is my right.~
 93 CXXXVIII |                what a splendid man! To say nothing of all the other
 94 CXL      |               then!~Lina charges me to say to you that you are authorized
 95 CXLII    |             night, the Eve, that is to say, the 24th. This is the program:
 96 CXLIV    |                and would be willing to say a word to him in favor of
 97 CXLIV    |             young people. The youngest say that l’Education sentimentale
 98 CXLIV    |                have illusions and they say: “Why does this man, so
 99 CXLIV    |                from living?” What they say is poorly reasoned out,
100 CXLVII   |                Saturday at Magny’s. Do say yes, it is I who invite
101 CLIV     |               mentioned me.~—Oh, don’t say that I spoke to you of it!~
102 CLIV     |               me, as Victor Hugo would say.~Madame Cornu has spoken
103 CLXIII   |            April, 1870~What ought I to say to Levy so that he will
104 CLXIV    |              for that; I don’t dare to say how very simple and primitive
105 CLXV     |              is in knowing what not to say. I shall console myself
106 CLXV     |                always deprived of.~You say very lovely and also good
107 CLXVIII  |                good,” as the bourgeois say.~I have read lately some
108 CLXVIII  |                 I have nothing more to say to you.~Poor Edmond de Goncourt
109 CLXIX    |             the next morning; we could say to each other:~“You appeared
110 CLXIX    |                or understand.~It is, I say, this poor Edmond who is
111 CLXXIII  |                 He is imbecile, people say; no, he is a child in prosperity,
112 CLXXVI   |             That is all that I have to say to you. Now I should have
113 CLXXVI   |               have many more things to say, but my head is not clear.
114 CLXXVII  |              were conquerors? you will say to me. That hypothesis is
115 CLXXVIII |           condition of man, that is to say, to evil.~The Greeks at
116 CLXXX    |               catastrophe.~Don’t let’s say that it is impossible; don’
117 CLXXXII  |                is all the good one can say. I do not regret this Republic,
118 CLXXXV   |                strangled.~What can one say of the socialists who imitate
119 CLXXXVII |                am sad, sad, that is to say, that I am stunned, that
120 CLXXXVIII|      understood in France), that is to say, the exaltation of mercy
121 CXC      |               something, and one would say that the bourgeois Republic
122 CXCI     |             natural manner, that is to say, they are getting back into
123 CXCI     |              after him, dear master. I say come after, for we have
124 CXCII    |                all I know. My children say the same. Embrace your good
125 CXCV     |                misfire, “whatever they say.” And the reason is that
126 CXCV     |             into criticism, that is to say into the examination of
127 CXCV     |               dispenses with thinking. Say that, you will be brave,
128 CXCVI    |           turning napkin rings, as you say: and, as for me, while serving
129 CXCVII   |            stop loving? You want me to say that I have been mistaken
130 CXCVII   |             peasant always stupid? You say that you have known all
131 CXCVII   |              if only one could, as you say, live for certain privileged
132 CXCVII   |               to live.~The people, you say! The people is yourself
133 CXCVII   |           PEOPLE ALWAYS FEROCIOUS, you say? As for me, I say, the nobility
134 CXCVII   |       FEROCIOUS, you say? As for me, I say, the nobility always savage!~
135 CXCVII   |          ignorant, all discouraged: to say that it was WRITTEN, that
136 CXCVII   |            drowning. You might as well say at once.~It is all the same
137 CXCVII   |              the politicians think and say what they want to. Let us
138 CXCVII   |               to false notions, I must say to you and to others who
139 CXCVII   |            interest. Those who can not say that of themselves will
140 CXCVII   |              have to make an effort to say to themselves that what
141 CXCVII   |             and if you have nothing to say, if you cannot speak a word
142 CXCVII   |           indifference? You want me to say: man is made thus, crime
143 CXCIX    |               is a natural, that is to say, a legitimate aristocracy.
144 CCI      |                Besides, you can always say everything to me, to me!
145 CCII     |           finished MY GODS, that is to say the mythological part of
146 CCIII    |              Christmas Eve REVELS. You say you have too much to do.
147 CCVIII   |              blow your nose, get well, say that France is mad, humanity
148 CCIX     |              are too angry, that is to say too good, and too good for
149 CCXI     |                one live peaceably, you say, when the human race is
150 CCXII    |          protested naively, that is to say brutally. And I did well.~
151 CCXIII   |                true, one would have to say: “What is the use?”~I embrace
152 CCXVI    |               I have so many things to say to you that I don’t know
153 CCXVI    |          passions,” as Prudhomme would say.~A propos of Caesar, I can
154 CCXVI    |           believe, no matter what they say, in his near return. In
155 CCXIX    |               not give me the right to say the contrary.~There is,
156 CCXXIX   |             than next week, that is to say, the 15th or the 16th. If
157 CCXXXIV  |                the good Brantome would say, that you were at Cabourg!
158 CCXXXVI  |               of their souls, I should say the bottom of their bag:
159 CCXXXVII |               the nice things that you say to me, you praise me for
160 CCXXXVIII|               a sterile treasure. They say that he suffered greatly
161 CCXXXIX  |                and no matter what they say, so simple. People will
162 CCXXXIX  |             wrath at not being able to say what he thought. He was
163 CCXL     |           FEMININE SENTIMENT which you say you have defied.— I know
164 CCXL     |                 I embrace you, shall I say again, my old troubadour,
165 CCXLI    |              of living.~Do you mean to say that I did not tell you
166 CCXLII   |            Levy, but there are others; say the word, and I will act
167 CCXLIV   |                AUTHORITIES, that is to say, to the minister who will
168 CCXLV    |            there at this time, I don’t say, admiration or sympathy,
169 CCXLVI   |              ideas too hot. Why do you say often that you wish you
170 CCXLVII  |            contemporaries.” I meant to say only this: if one does not
171 CCXLVII  |               progress! As for me, you say to me “Let us be logical”;
172 CCXLVII  |              is choking me, that is to say, to emit some truths, I
173 CCXLVIII |          interests me more, that is to say, about yourself. Tell me
174 CCXLIX   |         authority, no matter what they say. Here is a beautiful idea
175 CCLII    |              conceited person, I would say that it was your normal
176 CCLVII   |          Empress. How true is what you say of the proletariat! Let
177 CCLVII   |                punctuation. That is to say that I would shock you by
178 CCLVII   |                 Thank you for what you say of my poor Bouilhet!~I adore
179 CCLX     |         absolutely ignorant of, as you say, “the pleasure of doing
180 CCLXV    |               write a few lines and to say with you AMEN to the buried
181 CCLXVII  |                and smacks you, as they say in the country.~We wish
182 CCLXXII  |               of the claque. One would say that the management of the
183 CCLXXIII |             the fourth act, that is to say, beginning with the announcement
184 CCLXXIII |        progress.~I think, whatever you say about it, that the subject
185 CCLXXIII |          things of this age. One would say that the art of the theatre
186 CCLXXV   |               10 April, 1874~Those who say that I do not think Saint-Antoine
187 CCLXXV   |            What a difference! I do not say as you do that there is
188 CCLXXV   |              times out of fifteen. You say yourself that you have been
189 CCLXXV   |               it is very odd that they say so much against you to your
190 CCLXXVII |                 4th May, 1874~Let them say what they like, Saint-Antoine
191 CCLXXXII |                very ill, whatever they say; and my thoughts are more
192 CCLXXXIII|             then, shall you be able to say to yourself: Lo! this is
193 CCLXXXIV |                dead, and I am going to say a very pretentious thing
194 CCLXXXV  |             upon HAPPINESS, that is to say, the acceptation of life
195 CCLXXXVI |                written about that.~You say that Renan is despairing;
196 CCXC     |               without news of you? You say that you prefer to be forgotten,
197 CCXCII   |               clock, at least we could say farewell. You should be
198 CCXCII   |              the next day. What do you say?~I love you with all my
199 CCXCIII  |               your call as soon as you say to me, “I have finished.”~
200 CCXCIV   |             not write if it bores you, say to us only, “I am well,
201 CCXCV    |              to have your serenity! To say nothing of the rest! and
202 CCXCVII  |             all the summer, that is to say, that I have suffered continually,
203 CCXCVIII |           wills.~Well, this is just to say to you that I shall go to
204 CCXCIX   |               the necklace (that is to say, the main idea) is still
205 CCCI     |            would be agreeable to me to say what I think and to relieve
206 CCCI     |            monsters and no heroes!~You say to me: “I have no literary
207 CCCII    |                 the beautiful.~I don’t say that humanity is on the
208 CCCII    |             the monkey from which they say we proceed. Very well! a
209 CCCII    |              mount a step each day, to say to oneself: “The Flaubert
210 CCCII    |              all one’s heart.~I do not say that you do not believe:
211 CCCII    |       indifferent or heart-broken. You say that it ought to be like
212 CCCIII   |              my fault. I shall have to say the same thing to five or
213 CCCVI    |             should have a good deal to say about the novels of M. Zola,
214 CCCVI    |              and it would be better to say it in an article than in
215 CCCVI    |               is a STRONG book, as you say, and worthy of being placed
216 CCCVI    |               what my old cure used to say to me, when he had the gout:
217 CCCVI    |              is not as DECADENT as you say. There are diamonds that
218 CCCVIII  |                  as M. Prudhomme would say.~I am very glad that Jack
219 CCCXI    |                 I have not the time to say any more to you today. People
220 CCCXI    |            interesting, I might almost say GRIPPING.~I embrace you
221 CCCXIII  |                evening, 27th~All I can say to you, in the first place,
222 CCCXIII  |            your two hands heartily and say “bravo” to you again, and
223 CCCXVI   |             read her books, that is to say that they will think according
224 CCCXIX   |                not a day when I do not say: “If she were there, I should