Letter

  1 Introd    |       heard, no doubt, by the last man as a solemn accompaniment
  2 Introd    |          in Jacques she paints the man who might fitly have matched
  3 Introd    |         loved glory as much as any man; but he desired to receive
  4 Introd    |        souls, to reconcile being a man with being an author. He
  5 Introd    |      indulge a little the physical man. Live a little as I do;
  6 Introd    |      lacking in mankind, but which man can, up to a certain point,
  7 Introd    |        caused scandal, not a great man who has not been mobbed
  8 Introd    |           Behold then, the NATURAL MAN. Make theories now! Boast
  9 Introd    |           a child in prosperity, a man in disaster, more of a man
 10 Introd    |         man in disaster, more of a man than we who complain; he
 11 Introd    |           peasants or the “average man,” brings forward his own
 12 Introd    |            contempt of the average man—with the Academy of Sciences
 13 V         | contemplate he was good this young man whom the matches killed,
 14 XIV       |           are a dear kind boy, big man that you are, and I love
 15 XVI       |       DIRTY EYES.~I suppose that a man of intelligence may have
 16 XX        |          the elements which make a man are limited, should not
 17 XXI       |         thought that he had become man very recently. I think that
 18 XXI       |            just, I should become a man; I should have the physical
 19 XXIV      |         point of view he was not a man of the first rank, one loved
 20 XXIV      |     Despruneaux is the most honest man in the world; you can answer
 21 XXXII     |           I insist that your young man is wrong. [Footnote: Refers
 22 XXXVI     |          person being married to a man of light character who squandered
 23 XXXVII    |             a propos of your young man), what you write me in your
 24 XLIV      |           THERE IS ONLY ONE SEX. A man and a woman are so entirely
 25 XLIV      |     daughter, who was an imperfect man.~I embrace you. Maurice
 26 XLV       |            because you are a great man or a charming being? I don’
 27 XLVIII    |           say that the hideous old man who buys young girls does
 28 XLVIII    |           the arms of the ugly old man, and where there is not
 29 LV        |    extraordinary things there. But man is made to swallow the infinite.
 30 LVI       |            if it is the destiny of man to DRINK THE INFINITE; my
 31 LX        |      lacking in mankind, but which man can, up to a certain point,
 32 LX        |          care?” I spoke to a young man who was mending the meshes
 33 LXVIII    |            novel. Your friend is a man of wax; everything gets
 34 LXIX      |             I know that the worthy man will be glad of it. But
 35 LXXXV     |        hasten my end.” There was a man!~Every time now that I hear
 36 LXXXVII   |      excellent and very cultivated man.~
 37 XCVII     |        caused scandal, not a great man who has not been mobbed
 38 CI        |         stomach-ache. And so on. A man who has no common sense
 39 CIV       |         your troubadour a worn-out man. I have spent a week in
 40 CIV       |          not behave as a courteous man. If one has a friend, a
 41 CVII      |         son of an extremely humane man, sensitive in the true meaning
 42 CXXI      |           serves him right. When a man of style debases himself
 43 CXXII     |          is naturally an unhealthy man. I do not like the country
 44 CXXXVIII  |            are and what a splendid man! To say nothing of all the
 45 CXLIV     |           they say: “Why does this man, so good, so kind, so gay,
 46 CLXV      |          one or the other, being a man of excess, a gentleman entirely
 47 CLXVIII   |         and Eckermann. There was a man, that Goethe! But then he
 48 CLXVIII   |       everything on his side, that man.~
 49 CLXX      |           the natural condition of man is savagery; (3) because
 50 CLXXII    |           Behold then, the NATURAL MAN. Make theories now! Boast
 51 CLXXIII   |           a child in prosperity, a man in disaster, more of a man
 52 CLXXIII   |         man in disaster, more of a man than we who complain; he
 53 CLXXVI    |            me, I consider myself a man whose career is ended. My
 54 CLXXVII   |        makes one blush for being a man!~If we have had a success
 55 CLXXVII   |          is in all France a sadder man than I am! (It all depends
 56 CLXXVIII  |           the natural condition of man, that is to say, to evil.~
 57 CLXXXV    |          humiliating it is to be a man!~I embrace you!~
 58 CLXXXVIII |             who was not a bad rich man, but simply a rich man. “
 59 CLXXXVIII |        rich man, but simply a rich man. “The Republic is above
 60 CXCV      |         the bourgeois and the rich man read only these. The press
 61 CXCV      |          us slander our own times. Man has always been like that.
 62 CXCVI     |            go to see you, dear old man, and yet I had earned one
 63 CXCVII    |          as in all the things that man uses and abuses, both the
 64 CXCVII    |           that it is going to free man from his shackles and his
 65 CXCVII    |  indifference? You want me to say: man is made thus, crime is his
 66 CCI       |     between a rascal and an honest man. I became enraged once before
 67 CCI       |      suffrage is what it is. Every man (as I think), no matter
 68 CCI       |            unavoidable Harrisse, a man who knows everyone, and
 69 CCIX      |            a BITTER and vindictive man these louts would be less
 70 CCXVI     |        word, not at all “the great man,” not at all a pontiff!
 71 CCXVII    |          the moral depression of a man used to continual exercise
 72 CCXXXVII  |           I consider myself a good man, I am not always an agreeable
 73 CCXXXIX   |           things and I am the only man perhaps to whom he made
 74 CCXLII    |          here from Croisset, for a man? If you won’t come when
 75 CCXLIII   |           a simple-minded, natural man, a character that is not
 76 CCXLV     |           been more respected by a man for whom I have turned a
 77 CCLIV     |            I do not think that the man to whom one offers that
 78 CCLX      |        again the hunting horn! The man is mad. I want to go and
 79 CCLXIII   |         kind, excellent and worthy man! And what modest talent!
 80 CCLXIV    |      Cruchard is not consistent! A man with such an executive ability
 81 CCLXVI    |           name of such an agitated man, but I had to accept the
 82 CCLXVI    |       justice. By what right can a man prevent the accomplishment
 83 CCLXX     |           Aristophanes. There is a man, that fellow! What a world
 84 CCLXXII   |        there was applause (for the man but not for the work) accompanied
 85 CCLXXVI   |        advice of Doctor Hardy, the man who called me “a hysterical
 86 CCLXXVI   |         auction rooms now! He is a man with a passion, so much
 87 CCLXXVII  |           of the salons! happy old man! always content with himself
 88 CCLXXIX   |           boring to me. I am not a man of nature, and I do not
 89 CCLXXX    |            You do not want to be a man of nature, so much the worse
 90 CCLXXX    |          the star, the cloud. What man dabbles in is pretty or
 91 CCLXXX    |            to find nature, because man has arranged it everywhere
 92 CCLXXXIV  |           house, he is an adorable man.~
 93 CCLXXXVII |           my childhood like an old man ... I do not expect anything
 94 CCLXXXVIII|            the lack of exercise, a man of your strength and your
 95 CCXCI     |         quiet. Just the same, that man did me a great deal of harm.
 96 CCXCVII   |         your life again as a young man. Is one old when one does
 97 CCXCVIII  |          and good courage! The old man is coming to the top again!
 98 CCC       |         the truth.~I want to see a man as he is, he is not good
 99 CCC       |        Before everything, one is a man. One wants to find man at
100 CCC       |           a man. One wants to find man at the basis of every story
101 CCCI      |            than God in nature. The man is nothing, the work is
102 CCCI      |           one day: “Ah! my friend, man is an unstable compound,
103 CCCII     |           of my existence. Being a man amounts to little; we are
104 CCCII     |          all of us; you are a rich man, and you complain like a
105 CCCII     |           you complain like a poor man. Be charitable to a beggar
106 CCCII     |            know why, to be another man, one who should disappear,
107 CCCII     |            this contemplation; for man, that is yourself, and men,
108 CCCIV     |           short of it, but he is a man, with a heart and soul,
109 CCCIX     |      Madame Flamarande, and what a man is M. Salcede. The narrative
110 CCCXI     |           I write him? Are you the man to go to find him and explain
111 CCCXVI    |          pride desert us, and what man more than you should have