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1003 CI | spire of Strasbourg, the colonnade of Saint Peter’s, the portico 1004 CLXXXVIII | government) will render France colorless and dull. She will no longer 1005 LVIII | on the whole turns to the colossal. It is becoming foolish 1006 CXCI | reestablishment of credit seems to me colossally absurd. One of my friends 1007 CXCVII | are not recognized, are colossi of clay, as we have found 1008 Introd | the world through a golden colour. That comes from the sun 1009 XCIX | knowing with what to fill its columns, has had the idea of saying 1010 LXXIV | stirs the emotions, that combats moral anemia.~I think that 1011 LXXXVI | more. You may know that comedian. His name is Freville. It 1012 CCCV | the persistence of the Comedie Francais in exhibiting that 1013 CLXVI | way of reviving one of his comedies in prose. After that I shall 1014 XXXVII | them, in fact! The first comer is more interesting than 1015 XLI | matter what. I am of the last comers and you others born of us, 1016 CCLVI | Nohant to Chateauroux, very comfortably borne along in your carriage 1017 CCCV | Viardot made saucer-eyes, comical to behold. In your work, 1018 LX | who travel are those who command. Only when one is in Paris, 1019 LXXIV | Isidore with Antonelli commanding the brigands of Calabria, 1020 CLXXIX | from Rouen, and we have no commands, no orders, no discipline, 1021 XXVII | Footnote: Madame Caroline Commanville.] Ah! I forgot, I saw Couture 1022 XX | stupefaction of a newly commenced existence. It seems to me, 1023 Introd | possesses the characteristics commended by the late Barett Wendell: 1024 CCXIX | in that would not excite comment. It is the Revue universelle 1025 CCXLV | estheticism mingling with their commercialism makes a pretty result.~According 1026 XXVII | arrange. You see I am a good commissioner, use me.~ 1027 LXXXVI | bourgeois, who would have committed any crime to have been there. 1028 CI | try to live according to common-sense rules.~As for my frenzy 1029 CCXLIII | was carried away, like the commonest reader. (I don’t think that 1030 Introd | self-examination and self-torment commonly attributed to the Puritan. 1031 Introd | personal passion, in the commotion of a romantic spirit beating 1032 CCLXXII | republicans. Similarly the communists would have liked some insults 1033 Introd | outset of her career we compared her with Shelley. In her 1034 LIX | which forgetfulness of evil compensates for the inexperience of 1035 CXCVII | where it ends, for each day competencies shift, ruin lowers one, 1036 Introd | about 1831, entering into competition with the brilliant literary 1037 CCXLIX | Maurice would be very kind, to compile his agronomical recollections, 1038 CCXI | me, it is lost time, like complaining about being bored with the 1039 CCLXXXVII | not to bore you with my complaints that I write so rarely to 1040 Introd | actuated as a writer by two complementary passions—the love of splendor 1041 CCXLIII | that unconscious murder completed your heroine.~What strikes 1042 VII | determined in one’s moi, one completes it, explains it better, 1043 CCLXXXVIII| of your strength and your complexion ought to have lived an athletic 1044 Introd | little—once or twice—in compliance with the injunctions of 1045 CLXXX | ravaged by smallpox with complications, horrible. We had to take 1046 XXXVI | ministers could not have been complimented about it I have read your 1047 CXCIX | which to my way of thinking composes all morality. Humanitarianism, 1048 CCCI | friend, man is an unstable compound, and the earth an inferior 1049 CCCII | race has been admitted to comprehend; a very poor truth, very 1050 CCLXXXV | only the expression. Wisdom comprehends all: beauty, truth, goodness, 1051 CCCIX | am trying simply to be as comprehensive as possible. What more can 1052 Introd | relationships, so we must compress the intimately related history 1053 CCX | have used your name. I have COMPROMISED you in citing you among 1054 CXXXV | they have been afraid of compromising themselves and have talked 1055 CCXLIX | saint-simonians and ending with A. Comte. France is drunk with authority, 1056 Introd | pictures, a dramatic scene or a concatenation of dramatic scenes. Let 1057 CCLXVIII | memory! However I do not conceal from you that I had a moment 1058 Introd | and his forepaws, half concealed beneath the abundance of 1059 CCC | with deliberate meticulous concealment of your personal feelings. 1060 CCLXXXVI | and often weeps, but who conceals himself when he weeps, as 1061 Introd | of its heart; he grimly concedes the greater part of humanity 1062 Introd | Jacques, and the rest—we conceive George Sand’s culture, temper, 1063 CXCVII | threat for the enemy, it conceives and commits the remarkable 1064 CLXIV | us. You are too young to concentrate on the idea of REGAINING 1065 CCLXXVI | are accumulating! It is a concerto, a symphony in which each 1066 CCXCIX | should like to do something concise and violent. The string 1067 XXXIII | without any victoriously conclusive reply ever being given me. 1068 CCCXVIII | that I am in the process of concocting. I shall have enough work 1069 Introd | which subsists only by the concord of individual liberty with 1070 CCCV | imperishable style, in a more concrete and at the same time more 1071 CCXXXVI | bees and the ants. This concurrence of all to the same end, 1072 Introd | it is his subtly critical condemnation of the world.~The origins 1073 CCLXXXVIII| the very wise order that condemns you to an hour’s walk each 1074 XCIII | It is only a question of condensing and shortening it. If it 1075 CXLIV | rather quickly if the author CONDESCENDS to be willing to be quite 1076 IV | the lowness of that lady’s conduct and of yours that make me 1077 CXLV | these gentlemen who come to confer armed with pistols and sword 1078 CXXXV | Marquis de Sade, whom he confesses he has not read!~All that 1079 XVII | my ideas. If you want my confession, I shall make it freely 1080 CCLXXV | ask you how I could have confided in the Levy clerks whom 1081 CCXXXIX | to whom he made absolute confidences. He lacked what was the 1082 LXXIX | not going to bring on the confinement. I hope to go to spend two 1083 CLX | end of the week, write to confirm to me that everything has 1084 CCXLIII | And the uncle who wants to confiscate his nephew’s grisette! And 1085 CLXXII | preparations for these monstrous conflicts of which we have no idea.~ 1086 XX | diverse ideas. When they confuse categories, adieu, morale!~ 1087 CLXXV | in the midst of all this confusion, to publish Bouilhet, a 1088 CXCVII | consequence. Thinkers should congratulate themselves on not being 1089 CCLX | master.~In the first place, congratulations on your seventieth year, 1090 CLXX | negation so radical.~The Congress of Peace is wrong at present. 1091 Introd | withdrew her neck from the conjugal yoke and plunged into her 1092 XXX | when I tell you that La Conjuration d’Ambroise, thus says my 1093 Introd | and the applause of such connoisseurs of technique as Walter Pater 1094 CXCVII | trodden under the foot of the conqueror, whoever he may be. Let 1095 CLXXVII | it.~But supposing we were conquerors? you will say to me. That 1096 CCLXXXII | copies in two weeks. Zola’s Conquete de Plassans, seventeen hundred 1097 CXCVII | necessarily the pros and cons, and the sincere writer 1098 Introd | in his convictions, and conscious of increasing estrangement 1099 Introd | its immediate successors, consciously or unconsciously, she declares 1100 CXCVII | customs, let us be eager to consecrate it in our ideas. Let us 1101 Introd | has never dedicated and consecrated herself to her profession 1102 Introd | illustrate his “monkish” consecration to his craft we cannot do 1103 CCXLIII | with his sister, when he consents to her becoming a kept woman, 1104 XLII | awaken is the planet; I have considerable trouble in finding again 1105 Introd | Grace. In our sociological considerations we act no longer with discrimination 1106 Introd | upon his own head, Flaubert considers flight: “I cherish the following 1107 CLXXXVIII | crossed themselves while consigning themselves to God and to 1108 Introd | woman whose education has consisted in George Sand’s books? 1109 CXCVII | mad maintains a certain consistency, and I do not think that 1110 CCLXIV | character of Cruchard is not consistent! A man with such an executive 1111 CCLXXXII | not believe in Holbachic conspiracies, but all that they have 1112 Introd | seeing Egypt, Palestine, Constantinople, and Greece; and he had 1113 CCCI | instructions exact.~I am constantly doing all that I can to 1114 CXCVII | nothing constituted, nothing constitutable. It is an orgy of false 1115 CXCVII | no longer. Those are what constitutes positively the people of 1116 CXCV | A modern republic and a constitutional monarchy are identical. 1117 CCXXII | your disposal. Don’t feel constrained with me any more than I 1118 XIV | anomaly that one might find constraining. Instead of that, they received 1119 Introd | his books are essentially constructed on the same theory: all 1120 XXVIII | his suit relative to the constructions at Yport, he will settle 1121 Introd | themselves by calling him ‘Consul!’ and ‘Citizen of Rome!’ 1122 CXXXIX | what is the best to do: consult him.~You seem astonished 1123 LXVI | to put him in an in-pace. Consultation of lawyers signed: E. Arago, 1124 CCXLV | merchandise, therefore, cannot be consumed, for it is not made exclusively 1125 XLIV | and understand them. The contact of my personality will not 1126 CCXXII | from Aurore, from fear of contagion, and to recuperate, for 1127 CLIV | evening from Madame Cornu containing these words: “Come to me, 1128 CCCVIII | felt a fierce pleasure in contemplating a wall of the Acropolis, 1129 CXCIX | preface to his Questions contemporaines. What we need most of all, 1130 Introd | accompaniment to his final contention with his last adversary.~ 1131 CCLXXXVII | for I perceive that the contents are escaping.~ 1132 Introd | Salammbo, and two of the Trois Contes; on the other hand, Madame 1133 CCCVI | stomach that made me blue, and continued with a horrible persistence. 1134 CXCVII | for whom we have lived? A continuous happy life with one’s family 1135 CXXX | successful, if the authors contracted for are ANGRY they have 1136 CCXXXVI | father’s teacher, who was a contradiction from his head to his feet, 1137 CCCVI | saddened, horrified, and contradicts you so as not to despair.~ 1138 LXXIV | logic, reason seem strange CONTRASTS! One asks whether one can 1139 CCXXXVI | from the Gospels to the Contrat social. I read the history 1140 Introd | solitude of his existence were contributory to Flaubert’s melancholy, 1141 CCLXXVIII | voices (sic) and with a contrite air, as if I had been taken 1142 LVI | a cure that I carefully contrived, but you are worried about 1143 Introd | tides, clash beneath the controversy; and as soon as one hears 1144 CLVII | character, her feeling for the conventions—and also FOR JUSTICE. I 1145 CLXVIII | I have just reread the conversations between Goethe and Eckermann. 1146 CCCII | to think that I want to convert you to a doctrine. Not at 1147 CXCIX | me SHED A TEAR, without converting me, of course. I was moved, 1148 CCI | their necks, like ordinary convicts. But that would have wounded 1149 XLVI | Jansenist, his heart has cooled in that direction. Perhaps 1150 CLXV | Venus an Apollo in the same coop. It is one or the other, 1151 CVI | Footnote: George Sand had copied this and fastened it over 1152 LXXIV | other than the great tumbler Coquenbois when unmasked. These plays 1153 XXXIII | painstaking work; is it a coquetry? It does not seem labored. 1154 C | It is perhaps a little coquettish on your part, so as to make 1155 I | a tree.~As for your very cordial invitation, I am not answering 1156 CCCXII | is to you that I owe the cordiality of his reception. I do not 1157 XXXVI | annals of the tight-rope and coregrafie balancer in all countries 1158 XXXII | of which I have heard; of Cormenin (a friend of twenty-five 1159 CCLXVIII | days. But his successor Cormon is full of zeal. Up to now 1160 CCXXXIX | author. So indeed is Pierre Corneille.~He hated two things: the 1161 XXXI | The flies sleeping in the corners of my room, awaken at the 1162 CLXXXVI | Paris, capital of arts, cornerstone of civilization, center 1163 CLXXXIX | disheartened.~The odor of corpses disgusts me less than the 1164 CCLXIV | is finished, reviewed and corrected, perhaps he won’t want it. 1165 CCLVII | think about it? When the correction is made and I have strengthened 1166 CCCI | democracy on the other, do not correspond to the spiritual needs of 1167 Introd | maternal sympathies of his correspondent, he has no talent for living. 1168 Introd | earlier chapters of the correspondents’ history. What impresses 1169 CLXIV | mention in mockery, but that corresponds by an emphatic and silly 1170 CCXCIX | must have occurred, in the corridors of the Assembly, dialogues 1171 Introd | representations of the peasant are not corroborated by Zola’s; to the last she 1172 CXCVII | certain; we are all sick, all corrupt, all ignorant, all discouraged: 1173 XXVII | sincere, loving art, not corrupted by ambition, not drunk with 1174 Introd | and studios; travelled in Corsica, the Pyrenees, and the East, 1175 XLVII | south, no matter what it costs, there! Otherwise the WOODEN 1176 CCLXX | melancholy. While spitting and coughing beside my fire, I muse over 1177 IV | tell you and I salute you.~Coulard~At Palaiseau with the Monks~ 1178 CCI | proportion, that the war council at Versailles treats Pipe-en-Bois 1179 Introd | masters of her generation counselled acquiescence in servitude 1180 III | are not displayed on the counter. But as it is far from my 1181 Introd | Aginbault, Consuelo, and The Countess of Rudolstadt are representative 1182 CCCIV | not go to seek for your country-side before the good weather; 1183 XLVII | live as a small retired countryman, which is not very amusing. 1184 CLXXXIV | vindictive,—all that bragging, coupled with poltroonery, will so 1185 CCXCVII | find you there ready and courageous, shan’t I? If you have made, 1186 CCI | Pipe-en-Bois more harshly than M. Courbet, Maroteau is condemned to 1187 CIV | who did not behave as a courteous man. If one has a friend, 1188 Introd | rehabilitates and poetises the courtesan,’ against George Sand, the 1189 CX | day is for marquises and courtesans; but what difference does 1190 CLVII | ambition is higher, and our courtesy greater.—When one thinks 1191 XL | they are giving him,—80 covers, at least.~As for Marengo 1192 LX | troubled them in their rocky coves; intermarrying, inoffensive 1193 CCXII | have accused me of being a coward. I protested naively, that 1194 LVI | storm so fiercely against cowards. That disappears, you say? 1195 CCXII | indulgence, from clemency, from COWISHNESS and (I return to my eternal 1196 CCLXXX | devoted to mythology (George Cox, Baudry translation). You 1197 XXI | unpublished? You are very coy. You don’t find what you 1198 CLV | getting old. Not in the crabbed and MISANTHROPIC sense. 1199 Introd | monkish” consecration to his craft we cannot do better than 1200 CCCVI | only the other. Life is not crammed with monsters only. Society 1201 CCCVI | I too am better, after cramps in my stomach that made 1202 XVI | Bovarys in which every little cranny of life is studied and painted 1203 Introd | With a grey hat and a huge cravat of woolen material, I looked 1204 XVI | gone out too much. Monsieur craves Syrias, deserts, dead seas, 1205 Introd | of his age. He, with his craving for sympathy, and she, with 1206 XXVII | would make your portrait in crayon like mine for whatever price 1207 XL | one’s characters and not create them after oneself. That 1208 CCXII | since it gives the means of creating.~ 1209 CCLXXIX | contrary!~I have just read la Creation naturelle by Haeckel, a 1210 Introd | grace,” resident in the creative and recuperative energies 1211 LVI | for the adoration of the Creator.~Is it true what you tell 1212 CIII | have known him to be more credulous and more republican than 1213 CCLXXXVI | little time left, old age creeps on and death is pushing 1214 XLIX | journeys to Sevres, to Creil, etc.~Father Sainte-Beuve 1215 CLXXX | our little ones into the Creuse, to friends who came to 1216 CV | as a little Louis XIII in crimson satin, trimmed with white 1217 CCVII | How is it that I have not croaked with it? My longest nights 1218 CCLXXXVI | without looking behind it; Cronos, the stupid, swallowed stones, 1219 CI | drunk with brandy. The muse, cross-grained as she is, gives less trouble 1220 CXCVII | is no club, there are no crossroads where a voice of truth could 1221 Introd | servitude to force, hasten to crouch beneath every yoke. That 1222 Introd | the cross. The soldiers crowded around the beast, diverting 1223 CLXX | element which enraptures crowds.~Have we returned to the 1224 CLXIX | they fall back into the crucible so as to reappear with what 1225 CCLXIV | should spend my time before a crucifix saying: “Maintain the Republic 1226 LVI | which inspired one to commit cruelties? We have fallen from the 1227 CXCVII | not to be what is called a crumb of comfort, we shall have 1228 XX | insects. I died during the Crusade from having eaten too many 1229 XXXIX | and the wrist broken from crushing stones well or badly, one 1230 CI | pay more attention to the crutches than to the legs themselves.~ 1231 CCCIX | admire M. Buffon putting on cuffs when he wrote. This luxury 1232 CCCII | your success. Keep your cult for form; but pay more attention 1233 CCCI | often and whom you designate cultivate all that I scorn and are 1234 Introd | a relative beauty to the cultus of the true beauty? Well! 1235 LXIV | tiresome task. Aurore is very cunning with her arms, she offers 1236 XLVI | that I thought I was hardly curable; but, all is getting on, 1237 CCXXXI | let him talk, too; I am curing myself while his patients 1238 Introd | one engagement.” With the curiously vengeful satisfaction which 1239 Introd | may not be criminal and cursed by God.”~One of George Sand’ 1240 CCXXXVIII | must not undergo them with curses. We must rise above them 1241 CCLXIV | exasperate me. Those little curt phrases, this continual 1242 CCLXXIII | to have: (1) lowered the curtain after the electoral meeting 1243 CCXLV | more money for him than Cuvillier-Fleury has, haven’t I? Well, draw 1244 CV | CV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1245 CVI | CVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1246 CVII | CVII. TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday 1247 CVIII | CVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1248 CX | CX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1249 CXC | CXC. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1250 CXCI | CXCI. TO GEORGE SAND 25 July, 1251 CXCII | CXCII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1252 CXCIII | CXCIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1253 CXCIV | CXCIV. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 1254 CXCIX | CXCIX. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear master, 1255 CXCV | CXCV. TO GEORGE SAND Croisset, 1256 CXCVI | CXCVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1257 CXCVII | CXCVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 14 1258 CXCVIII | CXCVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1259 CXI | CXI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1260 CXII | CXII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Monday, 1261 CXIII | CXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thursday 1262 CXIV | CXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 30 1263 CXIX | CXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT~Then 1264 CXL | CXL. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 1265 CXLI | CXLI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, in 1266 CXLII | CXLII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1267 CXLIII | CXLIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 31 1268 CXLIV | CXLIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1269 CXLIX | CXLIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1270 CXLV | CXLV. TO GEORGE SAND Wednesday 1271 CXLVI | CXLVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1272 CXLVII | CXLVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1273 CXLVIII | CXLVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The 1274 CXV | CXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 3 May, 1275 CXVI | CXVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1276 CXVII | CXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Sunday, 1277 CXVIII | CXVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1278 CXX | CXX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1279 CXXI | CXXI. TO GEORGE SAND~My prophecy 1280 CXXII | CXXII. TO GEORGE SAND~What a good 1281 CXXIII | CXXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1282 CXXIV | CXXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1283 CXXIX | CXXIX. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear good 1284 CXXV | CXXV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thursday~ 1285 CXXVI | CXXVI. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1286 CXXVII | CXXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1287 CXXVIII | CXXVIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1288 CXXX | CXXX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Wednesday 1289 CXXXI | CXXXI. TO GEORGE SAND 14 October, 1290 CXXXII | CXXXII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris, 1291 CXXXIII | CXXXIII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1292 CXXXIV | CXXXIV. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, at 1293 CXXXIX | CXXXIX. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 1294 CXXXV | CXXXV. TO GEORGE SAND~Dear good 1295 CXXXVI | CXXXVI. TO GEORGE SAND Tuesday, 1296 CXXXVII | CXXXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Thursday, 1297 CXXXVIII | CXXXVIII. TO GEORGE SAND 10 December, 1298 Introd | melancholy, observing, cynical, and satirical. She insists 1299 Introd | has long been easily and cynically familiar. As if his pessimism 1300 XLV | able to haunt the dells of Cyprus. He is within the truth, 1301 CLXIX | despised. I go there to dabble in it every day after my 1302 CCLXXX | star, the cloud. What man dabbles in is pretty or ugly, ingenious 1303 LXXIII | imbecile, a more abject dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois 1304 LXIV | together; for, since this new dagger-thrust, I am feeble and crushed 1305 LXXII | can breathe without having dagger-thrusts in one’s lungs.~So you see.~ 1306 CLXXXV | seems to me to surpass Dahomey in ferocity and imbecility. 1307 LXXIV | tender, she makes succulent dainties TO SURPRISE US WITH, and 1308 CCXLV | advantages in the preface to the Dame aux Camelias, hasn’t he?~ 1309 CXLIV | at all.~They continue to damn your book. That doesn’t 1310 CCLXXVIII | good-for-nothing, a cow, damned, antique, deliquescent, 1311 LI | periwinkle. It is warm and damp. One can not break one’s 1312 CCXXVIII | should be afraid that the dampness would hurt you.~The mayor 1313 CXLIV | he was always ill, always dandled on the knees and always 1314 CXCII | extinguished useless and dangerous enthusiasms, I had sowed 1315 CCLVII | Temps (a pun). [Footnote: “Dans de temps” means also, “some 1316 LVI | fallen from the Hell of Dante into that of Scarron.~Of 1317 CLXXXV | gained by bribery through Danton and Westermann. But no! 1318 CCLX | Histoire de la Medecine by Daremberg, which amuses me a great 1319 CXLIV | ought to reflect before daring to give this advice.”~That 1320 CLIII | here in the midst of my darling family, but I am unhappy 1321 CCLXXIX | there than in the books of Darwin himself.~The good Tourgueneff 1322 CCLXXIX | pretty book, pretty book! Darwinism seems to me to be better 1323 CXCVII | number of civilized citizens dates from yesterday and many 1324 CIV | is, at most, only at its dawning. They are on a different 1325 CV | supper, and frolicked till daylight. You see that banished to 1326 CLXVIII | deaths during a year! I am as dazed by them as if I had been 1327 Introd | flashes of beauty and grace, dazzling bits of color, haunting 1328 CCXIX | your poor mother was too deaf to listen to reading, and 1329 CCXXXII | books, do you know of any dealer in Paris who would rent 1330 Introd | member of the Academy, who deals somewhat austerely with 1331 XXXII | you as much as possible, dearly beloved master.~I have reread, 1332 CXL | ABSOLUTE IMPERSONALITY is debatable, and I do not accept it 1333 Introd | own, fearing to resume a debate in which her cause may be 1334 Introd | their manners are still debating the same questions today. 1335 CCLXXIII | any more (he says) in the Debats, and Taine is busy getting 1336 CXXX | for I have gotten into debt with the Revue and I must 1337 Introd | querulous friend of her last decade.~As we have compressed the 1338 CCLXXVIII | which is the last term in decadence.~ 1339 CCCVI | polychrome. Moreover, the decadences are transformations. The 1340 CCCVI | Etrangere. It is not as DECADENT as you say. There are diamonds 1341 CCL | experience. Experience can never deceive, it may be incomplete, but 1342 XVII | have done very little. What deceives the superficial observer 1343 LXI | without egoisms, and without deceptions in consequence.~Think of 1344 CCCXIX | to me more decent (quod decet). You do not speak of a 1345 CCXXIII | settled, I stay here. Before deciding on the future, I must know 1346 CCLV | with you, if there is any decision contrary to your promise 1347 Introd | her public utterances a decisive change of front, privately 1348 XCIV | start like crazy people to declaim their tirade; continually 1349 CLXXXIII | look for new hypocrisies: declamations on virtue, diatribes on 1350 LXXXVII | I limit myself, then, to declaring things as they appear to 1351 CCXX | my mother worries me. Her decline increases from day to day, 1352 CCXII | generalities,—as for M. Decorde, my intentions are for open 1353 LV | the public cowardice is decreasing.~I went twice to the Exposition; 1354 CCXIII | and ranks are not given by decree, above all in an age when 1355 CXCVII | declared them traitors, and decreed their arrest. They would 1356 CXCVII | deliberations and in its decrees. It declares that it is 1357 Introd | reconstructive force in a decrepit society, she is groping, 1358 CCLXXXIV | of the stupidity, of the decrepitude in which we are floundering.~ 1359 VI | tell you that I want to dedicate to you my novel which is 1360 Introd | calamities from which you deduce your philosophy of universal 1361 XXXIII | he will have many ideas, deductions and emotions before realizing 1362 Introd | indicative of her vague but deep-seated moral yearnings, to find 1363 Introd | And she, obedient to the deepest impulses of her blood and 1364 Introd | intention of acknowledging final defeat: “For me, the ignoble experiment 1365 Introd | resigned in the sense of defeated, George Sand never became; 1366 CCLXVI | alone; but not at all: they defended him bitterly, out of hatred 1367 CXL | should abandon you instead of defending you. Criticism is in a sad 1368 CXXXVI | absolutely no one takes my defense.~Another story: yesterday 1369 Introd | desire. He, with a playful deference to the sex and years of 1370 XXXIV | LADIES it was from pride, in defiance of one’s self, and for effect. 1371 Introd | adventures that attended the defiant unfolding of her spirit 1372 CCXL | SENTIMENT which you say you have defied.— I know that the feminine 1373 CCLXXX | you a NATURAL force that defies the IFS and the BUTS of 1374 Introd | marching through a wide defile, hedged in by two chains 1375 XLV | sentiment for you and I cannot define it.~And a propos of this, 1376 CXCVII | humanity, we are not worthy of defining it, we are not capable of 1377 CVI | Sand~What an admirable definition I rediscover with surprise 1378 CXCVII | dissolution. The drama of its degradation has begun, and as this is 1379 Introd | no wise, however, become degraded by the vicissitude of events; 1380 CLVI | models. It is mistaken and it degrades art.~This is my SINCERE 1381 Introd | yoke. That is a false and degrading resignation; genuine resignation 1382 XXXVI | that I write you if you deign to write the history of 1383 LX | showed him one in silver. He deigned to look at it. “Do you want 1384 CXCVII | mourning, in my hours of pure dejection even, I love, therefore 1385 CCLVII | to me.~The “Dialogue avec Delacroix” is instructive; two curious 1386 XCIII | Shakespearean scene: that of the delegate to the Convention with his 1387 CXCVII | let a word escape in its deliberations and in its decrees. It declares 1388 CCVII | only one who shows such delicacies of feeling.~The premiere 1389 CCCV | great deal of heart and delicacy, be full of the best sentiments 1390 LVIII | I was carried away with delight, a week ago, at an encampment 1391 CLXXII | the pope (which has just delightfully missed its point, by the 1392 CCLXXVIII | a cow, damned, antique, deliquescent, in short calm and moderate, 1393 XXXIX | one believed it hastened deliverances to burn candles before an 1394 LVIII | that the Exposition has delivered us momentarily from these 1395 XLV | being able to haunt the dells of Cyprus. He is within 1396 CCLIII | Parisienne, the article on Marion Delorme. It ought to be framed, 1397 XCI | when could they do without delusions? After love, devotion; it 1398 XXXV | the things he examines and delves into, will be rare and serious. 1399 CXXI | 25th day of February, 1848, demanded the death of Louis-Philippe “ 1400 LVIII | reached the condition of a demi-god, and the pamphlet Trochu, 1401 CXCVIII | on from the effects of M. Demidoff, her late and I think unworthy 1402 CCCVI | whom they call heroes and demigods. She calls them horrid fellows.~ 1403 LXXIV | true that he is a former DEMOCRAT and is recognized as none 1404 CLXXXVIII | the good French hasten to demolish their house as soon as the 1405 Introd | more to reveal herself.~The demonstration afforded by a comparison 1406 LIV | ravished him, and he is not demonstrative.~He and his wife,—who is 1407 LVI | has never produced such demoralizations. Have we declined to such 1408 LXXXIV | brings you freshness in your den! I would chat discreetly 1409 CCLXXVIII | bit, to relax myself, to deneurasthenize myself! It is a long time 1410 CCLXVI | departs from theology is a denial of justice. By what right 1411 CXCVII | can well see that these denominations have become idle and that 1412 CCCIX | produced a laugh, and the denouement, which seems out of the 1413 Introd | passage of a letter which denounces modern republicanism, universal 1414 CCI | Do you see how they are denying it everywhere? Has not modern 1415 CXCVII | do not think that I have departed from mine. Reason and sentiment 1416 XCI | on the Revolution in the Department of Eure. It is full of extracts 1417 CCCV | The last term is then dependent on the other two, since 1418 VII | thousand regrets, but then I am depending upon you Monday before dinner. 1419 CXCVII | it calls itself the sole depository, but about which it does 1420 CCXLIV | buys it, and if the client depreciates the object, the salesman 1421 CCLX | creature spoils my sunlight and deprives me of the pleasure of enjoying 1422 CCI | with Duquesnel. They are depriving me definitely of the senior 1423 CXCI | him (and them) to d’Osmoy, deputy and president of the dramatic 1424 CXLIV | Salammbo to your modern descriptions. If you had been in a corner, 1425 CXCVII | believe that perhaps I am deserting the cause of the future. 1426 XVI | Monsieur craves Syrias, deserts, dead seas, dangers and 1427 CLXXIV | with Isidore!~This people deserves to be chastised, and I fear 1428 CCCI | I see often and whom you designate cultivate all that I scorn 1429 CCXXXII | me all the books that I designated?~What are you doing now? 1430 Introd | which M. Caro impressively designates as “the universal order.” 1431 CCXXX | support my friend, Raymond Deslandes, as if he were~Your old 1432 Introd | energy that personal and desperately pessimistic conception of 1433 CLXIX | cold as ice, is not to be despised. I go there to dabble in 1434 CLXXXIII | shall go doubtless to Paris, despite its unhealthfulness! But 1435 LVIII | under the great theocratic despotisms.~The Tsar of Russia displeased 1436 Introd | education at Rouen, with wide desultory reading; went to Paris, 1437 CXCVII | to accept rather than to detach myself from them through 1438 Introd | bit, only a bit, from the detailed account of the heroine’s 1439 LXXIX | I told him that I would detain you by force. Say yes, at 1440 Introd | Flaubert, thinking that he has detected in her public utterances 1441 CLXXXVIII | see those whom one loves deteriorate little by little!~In order 1442 LXXIV | fear for you some day a deterioration of health which will force 1443 VII | in general, one gets more determined in one’s moi, one completes 1444 CLXXXIV | lest these barbarous guests devastate Croisset; for they continue 1445 Introd | George Sand, amid these devastating external events, is beginning 1446 CCLXXXIV | worrying like five hundred devils about my book, asking myself 1447 LXXVIII | troubadours love each other devotedly!~G. Sand Monday evening.~ 1448 CCLXIV | terrible blow, and if I were a devotee, I should spend my time 1449 CXXXIII | is my little children who devour all my intellect; Aurore 1450 Introd | beginning with La Mare au Diable, there develops within her, 1451 CCLXXXIV | my friend Daudet, and les Diaboliques, by my enemy Barbey d’Aurevilly. 1452 CCLXXXIV | undertaken it. But, like Thomas Diafoirus, I am stiffening myself 1453 CCLXXXII | sentinel; (2) l’Histoire d’un Diamant by Paul de Musset (see the 1454 CLXXXIV | Mondes is publishing this diary. If you read it, you will 1455 CCXXXII | cure me!~I have just read Dickens’s Pickwick. Do you know 1456 CCLXV | AMEN to the buried catholic dictatorships; it is not even Catholics 1457 Introd | Bouvard and Pecuchet, he dies stubbornly fortifying his 1458 XXXIII | that is why I ask you if we differ on the question of internal 1459 CLXIV | friend whose feeling for the differences between the sexes had never 1460 XXIV | But one loves the living differently. I give you the part of 1461 CCCII | fire; for it is long and diffuse and probably useless. Natures 1462 Introd | develops within her, there diffuses itself around her, there 1463 Introd | children and grandchildren, diligently writing, botanizing, bathing 1464 CXXXI | funeral. How the little band diminishes! How the few survivors of 1465 CLXVI | at the beginning of the dinners at Magny’s, we are only 1466 CCCV | floundering in error; by dint of searching, I find the 1467 CCLXIII | I still go every day to dip into the cold rush of my 1468 CXXII | century the chief business was diplomacy. “The secrecy of the cabinets” 1469 LXXIII | puking with which this old diplomatic idiot inspires me in piling 1470 CLIX | dangerously ill.[Footnote: With diptheria.] Favre, MY OWN doctor, 1471 Introd | spending herself in many directions freely, gaily, extravagantly. 1472 CCLXXXII | was not easy, it was even “direful,” and “methought” I should 1473 CXL | You are undergoing the disadvantages of having a style that is 1474 CCXI | do not wish to hurt, by disagreement with their ideas. It is 1475 CLXXXVIII | country like Belgium. The disappearance of Paris (as center of the 1476 CXXXI | of the Medusa’s raft are disappearing!~A thousand affectionate 1477 LVI | fiercely against cowards. That disappears, you say? But only to recommence! 1478 XCVIII | if you say no, you will disappoint him greatly. You shall bring 1479 CXCVII | men were moved by hatred, disappointed ambition, mistaken patriotism, 1480 XLVI | has never had any great disappointments and who has no longer any 1481 CCXI | church. They do what they disapprove of, so as not to disobey 1482 CLXXIII | with! What disorder, what disarray in that military administration, 1483 CCLXVI | great buffoons who had a disastrous influence on the XIXth century. 1484 CCX | sacred thing with me, don’t disavow it.~Today I am starting 1485 CCCII | perish; if the inhabitants discard it they will be destroyed. 1486 CXLIV | but he has the taste and discernment that Hugo lacks, and he 1487 Introd | French realism and won the discipleship of the Goncourts, Daudet, 1488 CXCVII | to work, the race whose disciplinary aptitudes we admire, the 1489 CXLI | two and a half hours of discomfort!~We embrace you full of 1490 CCXXXVIII | for becoming savage and discontented with life. It seems to me 1491 CXCVII | make yourself over if the discord is in your own midst. Make 1492 CC | agree with your mind, a discordance into which we all moreover 1493 CXCVII | me, both harmonious and discordant,—whose qualities and whose 1494 CXLIV | so sympathetic, wish to discourage us from living?” What they 1495 CCXCIV | saddened and torn by your discouragements. Love them, love us, and 1496 CCLXXXVI | think of myself, to dream of discouraging things, to despair of human-kind, 1497 XLIX | Sainte-Beuve is preparing a discourse on free thought which he 1498 CCC | of external events, and discovering in yourself the strength 1499 LX | possession of him this year; he discovers marvels. Embrace your mother 1500 CCXVI | not at all a pontiff! This discovery greatly surprised me and 1501 LXXXIV | in your den! I would chat discreetly with you between two pages 1502 CC | ought to be. But our real discussions ought to remain between