Letter

 1 Introd  |     myself to satiety. There are phrases there which stay in one’
 2 Introd  |        trying to make harmonious phrases, in avoiding assonances,
 3 XX      |        trying to make harmonious phrases, in avoiding assonances,
 4 LXX     |       country better than all my phrases, and which had always struck
 5 LXXIV   |      that he is going to put the phrases and words at once in the
 6 CLXV    |      ought to inspire fine moral phrases from Prudhomme. As for me,
 7 CLXXVII |       makes me giddy.~Ready-made phrases are not wanting: France
 8 CXCI    |   tradition. They no longer make phrases in praise of her civilizations.
 9 CCXVIII |       such a pedant as to prefer phrases to living beings. The further
10 CCLVII  |      there are many pretty a b c phrases.~Thank you for what you
11 CCLXIV  | exasperate me. Those little curt phrases, this continual scintillation
12 CCLXXXII|       less than the least of the phrases of my novel.~Public intelligence
13 CCCI    |       with admiration or horror. Phrases make me swoon with pleasure
14 CCCII   |    nourished only on well-turned phrases and choice words. But brute,
15 CCCII   |         heart; the words and the phrases, THE FORM to which you attach
16 CCCV    |          repetition in one of my phrases, I am sure that I am floundering
17 CCCVIII |       even less that of Gautier. Phrases which ravish me seem hollow