Letter

  1 Introd   |    resourceful souls, to reconcile being a man with being an author.
  2 Introd   |         reconcile being a man with being an author. He has made his
  3 Introd   |     exchanging a word with a human being; and at the end of the week
  4 Introd   |       degree the Pauline virtue of being “not easily provoked,” or
  5 Introd   |         that if France, instead of being governed on the whole by
  6 XVI      |            the Chimaera! You are a being quite apart, very mysterious,
  7 XVII     |      Croisset, 1866~I a mysterious being, dear master, nonsense!
  8 XVIII    |         shall give myself a treat, being with you two. Now try to
  9 XIX      |            and hang it on my wall, being able to say, as did M. de
 10 XX       |          chic (or chiques): namely being pro-Catholicism (without
 11 XX       |            believing a word of it) being pro-Slavery, being pro-the
 12 XX       |          of it) being pro-Slavery, being pro-the House of Austria,
 13 XX       |        admiring Orphee aux Enfers, being occupied with Agricultural
 14 XX       |         Sport, acting indifferent, being a fool up to the point of
 15 XXI      |           t find what you do worth being described. That is a mistake.
 16 XXVII    |       malady of my old age is, not being able to keep still. I am
 17 XXXI     |       seems to complain because of being unable to speak to me any
 18 XXXII    |          risk of repetition and of being a Prudhomme, I insist that
 19 XXXII    |        much as possible in all his being.~That is, I think, the real
 20 XXXIII   |          experiences, if the human being can receive and seek its
 21 XXXIII   | victoriously conclusive reply ever being given me. I await the brilliance
 22 XXXVI    |            I think I am capable of being a model to you when she
 23 XXXVI    |         then count on my heart not being able to dispose of my person
 24 XXXVI    |            to dispose of my person being married to a man of light
 25 XXXVII   |           priests) risk nothing in being chaste; on the contrary.
 26 XLIII    |     exchanging a word with a human being, and at the end of the week
 27 XLIV     |           at this hour, is that of being~THOU WHO GOEST SEEKING,
 28 XLIV     |        well, here it is: one gets, being old, at the sunset of life,—
 29 XLIV     |     strength during this season of being shut in;—well, it is very
 30 XLIV     |            if you love me.~What is being hysterical? I have perhaps
 31 XLV      |            great man or a charming being? I don’t know. What is certain
 32 XLV      |      seemed to me depressed at not being able to haunt the dells
 33 XLVII    |          ourselves. I can, without being inconvenienced at all, as
 34 LVI      |        them on with, I am bored by being well. If the human race
 35 LIX      |         That is happiness! That is being really infatuated. My gloom
 36 LIX      |         got into a white heat, not being willing that those wretches
 37 LXVII    |            have a way of my own of being in Paris, namely, being
 38 LXVII    |            being in Paris, namely, being at the seaside, which does
 39 LXVIII   |          that I lack the desire of being free to move about. But
 40 LXXIV    |            only, that the physical being is necessary to the moral
 41 LXXIV    |          is necessary to the moral being and that I fear for you
 42 LXXXVI   |          the dull valets, and with being kicked from behind. He is
 43 LXXXVI   |          to fear that Cadio is not being rehearsed. But I shall try
 44 LXXXVIII |         They say that Cadio is now being rehearsed at the Porte Saint-Martin (
 45 LXXXIX   |         out of the first part from being a horrible bungle. One needs
 46 LXXXIX   |        have not been a day without being kept at FORCED LABOR.~I
 47 XC       |        also religious, but without being changed; she does not like
 48 XCVI     |     without any chagrin. Money not being the aim, ought not to be
 49 XCIX     |        understand that, you strong Being! I think that you will be
 50 C        |           which— wishing to do and being obliged to do anyhow,—you
 51 CIV      |            strength of your entire being, not only that of your brain.~
 52 CV       |            does not stop them from being pretty and not tormenting
 53 CVI      |       daughters and weeping at not being with her father. They left
 54 CXIII    |          Saturday I am not sure of being free; I have to read my
 55 CXXII    |           the fantastic and odious being called the State.~Experience
 56 CXXV     |         find in oneself the normal being again.~I am resuming my
 57 CXXX     |           my turn to Aisse without being postponed till next year,
 58 CXXXVI   |             Your old troubadour is being jumped on in an unheard
 59 CXLIV    |            doesn’t prevent it from being a fine and good book. Justice
 60 CL       |          time, I am better without being well. I am anxious at not
 61 CLV      |       others as much as I can from being impatient, there is everything
 62 CLV      |          That, in substance, meant being PATIENT, nothing else. Come,
 63 CLXV     |            am becoming a fossil, a being unrelated to the surrounding
 64 CLXV     |            It is one or the other, being a man of excess, a gentleman
 65 CLXV     |             but I am afraid of not being SUFFICIENTLY IN THE MOOD.~
 66 CLXVIII  | Tourgueneff, I don’t know a living being to whom to pour out my soul
 67 CLXVIII  |         very sad. You also, heroic being, you feel worn out! What
 68 CLXIX    |            as Aurore says, and not being able to budge till autumn.
 69 CLXX     |         terrible butchery which is being prepared has not even a
 70 CLXXII   |         that if France, instead of being governed on the whole by
 71 CLXXIII  |           with us and how they are being treated to begin with! What
 72 CLXXVII  |             It makes one blush for being a man!~If we have had a
 73 CLXXIX   |          France? Paris will end by being starved, and no one is taking
 74 CXCIV    |      France! And they accuse me of being skeptical.~But what do you
 75 CXCVI    |           indignant, alas! without being able to hate either the
 76 CXCVII   |       never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving.~
 77 CXCVII   |           alive in the depth of my being. We all have them, even
 78 CXCVII   |     congratulate themselves on not being of it, but if we are bourgeois,
 79 CXCVII   |             its real trouble is in being ignorant and foolish. It
 80 CXCVII   |       dreading the consequences of being drawn in, the most of them
 81 CXCVII   |        partizan readers. But every being who is not mad maintains
 82 CXCVII   |          has begun, and as this is being worked out by its own hands
 83 CXCIX    |       moved, that was all, without being persuaded.~I look vainly
 84 CCVII    |           does not prevent me from being in better health than ever.
 85 CCX      |       sentence. An effect of style being a sacred thing with me,
 86 CCXI     |             like complaining about being bored with the rain and
 87 CCXI     |          which is accused often of being silly, gets angry and only
 88 CCXI     |       child’s approach to culture, being persuaded that the first
 89 CCXII    |           would have accused me of being a coward. I protested naively,
 90 CCXVII   |       pages. It is on the point of being published but has not yet
 91 CCXIX    |          of the fact that Nanon is being published, he could find
 92 CCXXI    |        near you. The misfortune of being tied here distresses me.
 93 CCXXII   |         beguile the need I feel of being near you at this sad time,
 94 CCXXIII  |          dear, good mother was the being that I have loved the most!
 95 CCXXV    |           friends there. The human being (the eternal feminine included)
 96 CCXXVIII |        only about fifteen pages of being finished. However, don’t
 97 CCXXXI   |         could be seen, not a human being, not a sheep, not a fowl,
 98 CCXXXIII |           must resign ourselves to being trimmed by the innkeepers.
 99 CCXXXIII |            of which I am part, not being worth perhaps very much
100 CCXXXV   |       found fault with the sea for being too warm. Who would think
101 CCXXXVI  |         issue from the roots of my being, like the plants aforesaid.
102 CCXXXVII |          me, you praise me for not being “haughty”; one is not haughty
103 CCXXXVIII|       might employ in loving or in being loved. Why didn’t you come
104 CCXXXVIII|         how about getting married? Being alone is odious, it is deadly,
105 CCXXXIX  |   suppressed fury, of wrath at not being able to say what he thought.
106 CCXXXIX  |           the riddle. The feminine being has never been included
107 CCXLVI   |          prevent me, not only from being happy outside of literature,
108 CCXLVI   |          literature, but also from being literary with pleasure,
109 CCXLVI   |           accord with yourself, by being still calmer and more content
110 CCXLVI   |     enamoured of JUSTICE, begin by being just to yourself, you owe
111 CCXLVII  |           nobility now consists in being the equal of a grocer. What
112 CCLI     |       going on in the depths of my being? I don’t know. What is certain,
113 CCLIV    |        that finds its happiness in being ruled and I can understand
114 CCLVIII  |            is worth the trouble of being said!~Don’t believe a word
115 CCLXIII  |           some time. I get well by being moderate, and he does not!
116 CCLXXX   |         not the right to complain, being well loved and well cared
117 CCLXXX   |             and resign yourself to being bored if the air is good
118 CCXCV    |            dreadfully ill, without being able to get to the root
119 CCC      |         for me the purpose of art, being good and bad, he has an
120 CCCII    |           the law of my existence. Being a man amounts to little;
121 CCCII    |         still more from it and for being at least at the height of
122 CCCII    |           me your book without its being signed, I should have thought
123 CCCII    |       public is not pleased in its being well written, well composed
124 CCCVI    |          as you say, and worthy of being placed in the first rank.~