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1503 Introd | humble moral quality that she disdains, and when she has occasion 1504 CVII | something terrible, an infinite disenchantment is bound to be produced 1505 CCXXXVI | and doubt, enthusiasm and disenchantments. To love, to make sacrifices, 1506 Introd | may speak of Flaubert as a disgruntled son of the Second Empire. 1507 CCLXXX | bored, it is because it is disguised and travestied everywhere. 1508 CLXXXIV | make themselves odious and disgusting everywhere. Ah! how I should 1509 CLXXXVIII | opinion of the day, the dish of the fashion!~All was 1510 CXCV | nothing but collection of disheartening humbugs. We are floundering 1511 Introd | the successive shocks of disillusioning experience, she expects 1512 LXII | hypocritical fit has a rough disillusionment in store for it, and one 1513 CXCVII | interest there was in the disinherited still exists, only it is 1514 CXC | does not teach honesty and disinterestedness overnight. The vote is immediate 1515 CCXI | nothing but joy. After the dismal winter of ’70 to ’71, one 1516 Introd | But at heart he is more dismayed, more demoralized, more 1517 CCXI | disapprove of, so as not to disobey the discipline of the school. 1518 XVII | an inclination towards a disorderly life. I maintain that cynicism 1519 CLXXVIII | authorities.”~The individual, disowned, overwhelmed by the modern 1520 Introd | humanity were the result of dispassionate reflections. “You think,” 1521 Introd | in her sense of the new dispensation and in her benedictive exuberance 1522 Introd | the Academy of Sciences displacing the Pope.~George Sand, amid 1523 III | or of the senses are not displayed on the counter. But as it 1524 LVIII | despotisms.~The Tsar of Russia displeased me profoundly; I found him 1525 CIV | should have said, “That displeases you, let us talk no more 1526 CCXXII | and I put them at your disposal. Don’t feel constrained 1527 XXXVI | heart not being able to dispose of my person being married 1528 CCXCVIII | get her married. But God disposes, and one must take death 1529 CLI | is for Friday. Then I am disposing of the two seats that I 1530 Introd | has naturally a kindly disposition towards various individuals 1531 Introd | Flaubert may have been a better disputant; he had a talent for writing. 1532 CXXII | hardly done anything except dispute about the external form 1533 CXXX | court. I have no taste for disputes and the scandals of the 1534 CLXXXIV | little from its perpetual disquiet. I am afraid lest these 1535 CCLXXXIII | hardly work at all, I am disquieted at your kind of life, the 1536 LXXIII | which exasperate one. To dissect is to take vengeance. Well! 1537 CVII | played, as a child, in a dissecting amphitheatre? But no one 1538 CXCVII | and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation 1539 Introd | that she is, in a sense, dissipating her personality and living 1540 CXCVII | the first act of its moral dissolution. The drama of its degradation 1541 CXCVII | yourself, proclaim your gospel. Dissolve yourself in order to make 1542 CCXL | for old people! Two hours distant from here, we have a real 1543 Introd | theory of which the prime distinguishing feature was the great doctrine 1544 CCLXIV | in le Sexe faible without distorting the real idea of the play. 1545 CCLIV | getting out of a rut and distracting yourself, absolutely necessary, 1546 CLXXXVIII | longer walk alone, and is distressingly weak! How sad it is to see 1547 LX | can be arranged without disturbing whatever may be the plans 1548 CXXXVI | would be too much for him.~Ditched again. I must look elsewhere. 1549 CCLXXVII | were happy at hearing the Diva Paulita, we had her, with 1550 CCLXXXI | sensitive as if he were divested of skin. And imbecility, 1551 CXCVII | annihilate politics, since it divides us and arms us against one 1552 Introd | to group his books in two divisions: on the one hand, The Temptation 1553 CXXII | leaves our beautiful country. Dixi. I admire Maurice’s occupations 1554 XLVIII | work again. I shall be as docile to the interior voice that 1555 CCLXIX | with admirable facility and docility; that child is my life and 1556 CCXLV | read last week the Illustre Docteur Matheus, by Erckmann-Chatrian. 1557 CCII | books then. Ah! how far our doctors of today are from those 1558 CXCVII | in them—and even certain doctrinaire points of honor, unwilling 1559 Introd | popular progressivistic doctrines. I must quote a few lines 1560 CLVI | never had any revelation nor document about her, NOT A WORD, NOT 1561 XXXVI | Marengo Lirondelle widow Dodin Rue Lanion, 47, Belleville.~ 1562 CCXLIII | I admire enormously your Dodore. This is the first time 1563 Introd | with anguish of spirit and dogged persistence.~Flaubert probably 1564 Introd | instinctively to her peasant doggedly, placidly, sticking at his 1565 CLXV | blurting out two or three dogmatic opinions on the art of writing. 1566 CCLXVIII | essential hatred of all dogmatism, of all parties.~Well, the 1567 Introd | illnesses and occasional dolours and dumps as incidents of 1568 CCI | answered me, calling me a dolt! That is where BREADTH OF 1569 CXLIV | of the management of the domains? If by chance the princess 1570 XLVIII | instinct and a passion that dominates everything. Add to that 1571 LIX | her drink while he says: Dominus vobiscum! then she drinks 1572 CCXLIX | sworn not to step beyond my doorsill till I am completely well 1573 XCI | natural order of things. Dorine has no more men, she takes 1574 LXXXI | you finally sleep like a dormouse in your cabin? I would like 1575 XCIV | succeeds, it will be a little DOT for Aurore; that is all 1576 CCXCV | I repeat myself like a dotard! I am becoming too stupid! 1577 CLXIV | when I lost Rollinat, my double in this life, the veritable 1578 CLV | impatience with evil always doubles the evil. When shall we 1579 CXCVII | rejoice that you never have doubted it, because maturity has 1580 XCIII | that; besides the thing is doubtful, for my grandfather, a violent 1581 XCIII | future is founded.” (Camilla Doucet.)~But my everlasting novel 1582 XVI | we have had, except a few downpours, fine sunshine in Brittany? 1583 LXXIII | let us talk a little of Dozenval,” let us roar at M. Thiers! 1584 LXXXII | May, 1868~Arrived while dozing. Dined with your delightful 1585 CCLXXIV | Cruchard’s biography; I have no draft of it and I want to reread 1586 XCIII | halcyon” to replace the word, “dragonfly.” Georges Pouchet suggested 1587 LXIX | to finish something which drags along, and before the final 1588 CCXVI | Melingue is a sleep-walking drain-man, and the others are as tiresome. 1589 CXCVIII | Shakespeare says. When I have drained my cup of bitterness, I 1590 CXXII | far from fortifying me, drains my strength. When I lie 1591 CXCVII | mantle of the future, and you drape yourself in a soiled flag, 1592 XCVII | Revolution. It is a gulf which draws me in.~However, I work at 1593 CXCVII | to profit by it, others dreading the consequences of being 1594 Introd | strongly united— the impetuous dreamy girl and her coarse hunting 1595 Introd | elaborately and massively dreary”; and he briefly dismissed 1596 CCXXXIX | I shake the vessel, the dregs mount and permeate all. 1597 LXXI | eager throbs, Young Alfred dried up with impatience.” (Memoires 1598 XLV | bigger with age. I was much drier and more bitter twenty years 1599 CLXXVI | lieutenant of my company, I drill my men and I am going to 1600 Introd | siege of Paris, Flaubert had drilled men, with an out-flashing 1601 LIX | Dominus vobiscum! then she drinks and answers: Amen! How she 1602 CCLXXIX | state of politics has become drivel! They have tickled my ears 1603 CCLXXIII | those who write like cab drivers. The QUESTION OF IMMEDIATE 1604 XLVIII | for it is not desire that drives the young girl into the 1605 CCXCVII | somebody, and you cannot drop out of the running, as can 1606 CCXC | we are struggling with a drought that has now become chronic 1607 CCII | with wrath, I would like to drown my contemporaries in latrines, 1608 CXCVII | pedagogue and the child who is drowning. You might as well say at 1609 CXLIV | departure also, that of my drudge of a Plauchmar—and still 1610 CCLXXV | any one. All the rest is drudgery and PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS, 1611 XVI | their sottish air, half drunkard, half saint. And the Celtic 1612 XXXI | unhealthy. It prevents us from drying up. And you dear friend, 1613 CLX | servant is still at the Dubois hospital, and I am distressed 1614 XXXIV | plays Macduff in Macbeth? Dugueret? She would like to have 1615 XVI | understood by that coarse Dumaine. Do have a copy at your 1616 Introd | and occasional dolours and dumps as incidents of the day’ 1617 CCXLIX | romantic and liberal old dunce embraces you tenderly.~ 1618 LXXIII | up his stupidity on the dung-hill of bourgeoisie! Is it possible 1619 CXXXV | in Paris, by Cesana and Duranty. I most profoundly don’t 1620 CLIX | between the dawn and the dusk sometime.~At least tell 1621 CCLXXXIII | just lost my poor blind Duvernet, whom you have seen at our 1622 CCC | the substance, and that it dwells too much on the surface. 1623 Introd | nation by the first Napoleon dwindled to a spirit of mediocrity 1624 LXIV | and that there were real dyed-in-the-wool simple-hearted men there. 1625 LXVI | Consultation of lawyers signed: E. Arago, Favre, Berryer, 1626 CCXX | I leave them I fall with eagerness upon my old and thrice great 1627 L | to be declared COCK by an eagle. At this moment he is having 1628 LXXXIX | once more. She needs to earn her living, she is cruelly 1629 CXXXIV | young people, all readers in earnest and of the first rank and 1630 Introd | and reformation, labors earnestly to bring Flaubert to her 1631 LVII | He now need not think of earning his living, which is a real 1632 Introd | can you compare with it an earthly love?—prefer the adoration 1633 CCXCVII | something more of earth earthy, which would reach everybody. 1634 C | to be able to do at your ease and without becoming too 1635 CXXVIII | Here am I a little sfogata (eased) from my need for travel, 1636 CLXXXIV | and the remembrance of you eases it a little from its perpetual 1637 CCXXXIII | taking care of until she eats it. SUCH IS LIFE [sic].~ 1638 CXCIV | stupid peasant and the odious ecclesiastic!~That is why I lose myself 1639 CLXVIII | conversations between Goethe and Eckermann. There was a man, that Goethe! 1640 XXXIV | participated in a great eclecticism and when one strayed FROM 1641 CCXIV | will not perish, but its eclipse will be long and we are 1642 CCLVII | the “Idees d’un maitre d’ecole,” I admire your pedagogic 1643 Introd | for the radical program, economic, political, and religious, 1644 CLXXV | my soul exults and has ecstasies of faith; these terrific 1645 XXXV | in one’s life—a complete ecstasy of heart, mind and senses. 1646 XC | enthusiast, oh! indeed, an ecstatic, mystic, molinistic religious 1647 CCLXXXVII | has calmed me and given me eczema on the middle of my forehead.~ 1648 CCLXXIV | rarer still than genius) edified me! and I formulated within 1649 LXI | Monsieur used to lead this edifying life, I used to work and 1650 CLVII | Bernard Latte (the former editor), whom I have never seen, 1651 CLXXVIII | the Hurons, boils in my educated veins, and I seriously, 1652 XXVII | friend Cadol’s [Footnote: Edward Cadol, a dramatic author 1653 CXCVII | the origin is more or less effaced; the first men were hunters 1654 LVIII | abase himself to a complete effacement, as under the great theocratic 1655 XXI | which supports courage and effaces all the wounds of pride. 1656 Introd | impressions, without one effacing another ... Who shall paint 1657 CLXXII | grandfathers were, light, effervescing people.~Once men passed 1658 CXXI | who discuss efficacious or efficient grace. Politics are as dead 1659 CCLXX | assurance physicians have! what effrontery! what asses for the most 1660 Introd | This is, if you please, an effusion of sentiment, a chant of 1661 LXXXI | wait for me, I lunch on two eggs made into an omelet or shirred, 1662 XLI | my epitaph. Et in Arcadia ego, you know, I love you, dear 1663 LXI | pure friendships, without egoisms, and without deceptions 1664 Introd | children and the best are great egotists. You say that I love them 1665 Introd | which he adored, seeing Egypt, Palestine, Constantinople, 1666 CXCVII | in Paris, and was at most eighty thousand soldiers of hunger 1667 Introd | Education Sentimentale “elaborately and massively dreary”; and 1668 CCLXXXIV | crime to let so long a time elapse without answering such a 1669 CCXXVI | good care of and cured the eldest, who is strong. The other 1670 CCLXXIII | the blackguardism, he is elected. Then his dream is accomplished, 1671 CCLXXIII | lowered the curtain after the electoral meeting and put the entire 1672 CCI | I am worth fully twenty electors of Croisset. Money, mind, 1673 CCLXXV | is one, is to turn on an electric current. The subject then 1674 CCLXXXIX | which hardly moves but which electricity will cure. One thinks that 1675 CCXXXVI | I asked myself the most elementary questions about society; 1676 Introd | children, mingled with charging elephants and vipers, flounder and 1677 CCLVII | required for the stage! The ellipses, the delays, the questions 1678 CCLXXII | people who slandered me eloquently in the lobbies. The “bravos” 1679 Introd | successive liaisons for an elusive felicity, for a larger mission 1680 LVIII | themselves registered at the Elysee. Oh! what a fine epoch!~ 1681 XLVI | return from Croisset. An emaciation that is too rapid to be 1682 CXCVII | brutality, that is all that emanates from this false social revolution. 1683 CXCVII | those who breathe its fetid emanations are struck by the ill that 1684 XVI | and every one is free to embark either on a great ship in 1685 CI | contradictory ideals. Thence embarrassment, hesitation, impotence.~ 1686 CCXCIX | hesitating among several embryonic ideas; I should like to 1687 Introd | behind her, George Sand emerges for us with one radiant 1688 CLX | winter from which we are emerging! One hears of nothing but 1689 Introd | extinguishes it.~The son of an eminent surgeon of Rouen, Gustave 1690 CCXLVII | choking me, that is to say, to emit some truths, I hope by this 1691 Introd | of that time and from the emotional extravagance of books grown 1692 XXXVI | figures of celebrities, kings, emperors, ancient and modern and 1693 Introd | of them here in order to emphasize that precious thing which 1694 CLXIV | but that corresponds by an emphatic and silly word, to a condition 1695 CCXL | cast aside the opportunity emphatically; we love you here just the 1696 CCVII | such rot! It is sillier and emptier than the worst of the fairy 1697 Introd | urged us with all speed to emulate the scientific spirit of 1698 CCXLVI | up voluntarily; you are enamoured of JUSTICE, begin by being 1699 CV | that he would be considered enchained. The simplest thing would 1700 CXCVI | you a note which you must enclose in the first letter that 1701 CLVIII | thank you) to Madame Cornu, enclosing it in a letter from your 1702 Introd | no one happy; Musset—an encounter from which both tiger-moths 1703 CCXVII | and so funny that I have encouraged him to send them to you. 1704 CCXLII | much pleasure and whose encouragement counts more with him. I 1705 CXV | FLAUBERT 3 May, 1869~They are encroaching upon my time more and more. 1706 LXVIII | gets imprinted on him, is encrusted on him, penetrates him. 1707 CCXXXVI | intelligence, no force, nor endurance. Nothing but means and a 1708 XLIV | PASS. THE EVIL OR HE WHO ENDURES IT, my old cure used to 1709 Introd | creative and recuperative energies of nature, resident in the 1710 CCXLVIII | Have you read Peres et Enfants? How good it is!~Now, I 1711 XX | Amelie, admiring Orphee aux Enfers, being occupied with Agricultural 1712 CXC | sufficiently foreseen and which enforce a new political life on 1713 CXCVI | the Princess Mathilde? At Enghien, or in Paris, or in England? 1714 XXVI | gooseberry sirup. I worked at the engine for three hours and I came 1715 CIV | It is high time that I enjoyed life.~I saw Sainte-Beuve 1716 CCCI | doing all that I can to enlarge my brain, and I work in 1717 CLXXXV | for by another. It is an enormity of absurdity and injustice.~ 1718 CLXX | contains a mystic element which enraptures crowds.~Have we returned 1719 CXCVII | organized by men already enrolled in the ranks of the bourgeoisie, 1720 CCCVIII | surface, the harmony of its ensemble, is there not an intrinsic 1721 CXXXVI | that the fairy play would entail expenses that would be too 1722 CV | extricate himself. They won’t entangle us in it: we aren’t so foolish!~ 1723 CCLX | Essai sur les facultes de l’entendement by Gamier, which I think 1724 CLIV | Madame Cornu has spoken to me enthusiastically of a letter you wrote her 1725 CCCV | are two subtleties, two entities, neither of which can exist 1726 XVI | coming out from the complete entombment of my poor Moi. Live! There 1727 XCIV | hours over the exits and entrances of the characters in blue 1728 CCLXXIII | from his desire to go to entrap his wife. Not enough is 1729 CCXXXVI | fields at the times when I entrusted her to Deschartres, I asked 1730 LVI | veritable OCTOPUSES, which entwine about you and which open 1731 CCLVI | Certainly, he is no more envied by anyone than by me.~Your 1732 LXVII | Dieppe, which dazzled me; the environs, the chateau d’Arques, Limes, 1733 CCLXXXV | making you understand how I envisage and how I lay hold upon 1734 CCXXXIX | Hide thy life,” maxim of Epictetus. My whole ambition now is 1735 Introd | as 1834, apropos of his epicurean Volupte: “Let the rest do 1736 Introd | of a giant, tainted with epilepsy; a Viking countenance, strong-featured 1737 CLXXXVIII | moment Paris is completely epileptic. A result of the congestion 1738 Introd | to him at Croisset, she epitomises her distinction as a woman 1739 Introd | about a type intended to epitomize the sentiment or the main 1740 CXCV | of Shakespeare, atrocious epochs in which fine things were 1741 CCCII | toward ourselves and our equals. What we destroy in ourselves, 1742 CLXXXVIII | above every criticism” is equivalent to that belief: “The pope 1743 CCCXIX | 1880~My dear Maurice,~No! Erase Cruchard and Polycarp and 1744 CCXLV | Illustre Docteur Matheus, by Erckmann-Chatrian. How very boorish! There 1745 XVI | badly composed, Carnac and Erdeven have no physiognomy. In 1746 CCCII | owe it to them to remain erect so that they shall not fall. 1747 Introd | Gradually satiated with erotic passion, gradually convinced 1748 Introd | their fruits, we should err if we dismissed this sentiment, 1749 CCIV | I have not yet done your errand to the princess. I was several 1750 Introd | However her passionate and erratic youth may have captivated 1751 CXLIII | to suffer for this WINTER escapade. All goes well here and 1752 CCLXXXVII | perceive that the contents are escaping.~ 1753 Introd | upon in Pater’s celebrated essay on “Style.” When by the 1754 CXCVII | democracy. After useless essays, they have understood that 1755 Introd | Dear Master.” Yet in the essentials of the conflict, though 1756 CXCVII | distinction of classes only establishes relative and for the most 1757 CCXXXIX | how little he must have esteemed himself! To seek an honor 1758 LXXXI | two weeks about my poor Esther, and now at last, here are 1759 CCCV | dear master, by attributing esthetic opinions to me which are 1760 CCXLV | THAT RESPECT, and their estheticism mingling with their commercialism 1761 Introd | one thing I have, to me estimable. For yourself, you blend 1762 CCXLV | then how measure work, how estimate the effort? The commercial 1763 CV | work, to forget himself in estimating that of others.~Heavens, 1764 Introd | mistress he seems to have estranged by an ill-concealed preference 1765 Introd | conscious of increasing estrangement from the spirit of his age. 1766 XXI | of one’s own renewal in eternity. I have a very amusing brother 1767 Introd | culture of his youth is not ethical but aesthetic; he finds 1768 CCXX | genius, how fine a work the Ethics is!~ 1769 CCCVI | read the manuscript of l’Etrangere. It is not as DECADENT as 1770 LXVII | Jumieges. This time I saw Etretat, Yport, the prettiest of 1771 LXXIV | future; at the end the widow Euphemia marries the Grand Turk, 1772 Introd | figure of Pagello; Michel Euraed; Liszt; Chopin, whom she 1773 XCI | Revolution in the Department of Eure. It is full of extracts 1774 CCCV | going to bed the Medea of Euripides, as I had no other classic 1775 CCXL | t care either about the evils or the follies they can 1776 Introd | externality that distinguish the evolution of Emma Bovary’s history.~ 1777 CLXXXIII | there are the three great evolutions of humanity! It is sad to 1778 Introd | against the Carthaginians is evolved with the same alternation 1779 CCCXVII | Maurice, and-sincerely yours, ex imo.~Gustave Flaubert~ 1780 Introd | Flaubert’s melancholy, his exacerbated egotism, and his pessimism 1781 XXVIII | for the most scrupulous exactitude.~For two days I have been 1782 CV | say, submission that she exacts, depends on a tradition 1783 XLVII | depth of the male. They exaggerate that unmercifully, God be 1784 CXCVII | whose miracles need to be exaggerated. Evil natures will find 1785 CCXLVII | Don’t take seriously the exaggerations about my IRE. Don’t believe 1786 CIV | on the same level. They exalt the little, and they lower 1787 Introd | human limitations, a love exalted to the height of its gamut 1788 XXXIII | strengthens us or if it exalts us too much, which state 1789 CXLIV | Maurice. He has passed his examinations for collector and goes to 1790 CCLXXX | quantity of utensils to examine the MICROS of his entomological 1791 Introd | that air as of a medical examiner, recording the results of 1792 CCLXXXVI | weakness! We all ought to be examples to our friends, our neighbors, 1793 CIV | bored, bored! But this time exceeds all others. That is why 1794 CCCV | the new novel by Zola, Son Excellence Rougon: I am very anxious 1795 CCXXXII | are the same; Walter Scott excepted, all lack a plot. That is 1796 C | you who live a life of exception, and I except myself, because 1797 LX | they put it in the common exchequer. I began botanizing at some 1798 Introd | work, and such tension and excitability of nerves that he shunned 1799 XCIV | there is something quite exciting in these great dark rooms 1800 Introd | cry “I told you so,” he exclaims: “Behold then, the NATURAL 1801 CLXXIV | very bottom, and I have excused in my heart those most ferocious 1802 CCLXVI | because all parties are execrable, imbecile, unjust, blind! 1803 CCLXXIII | settled at Annecy.~I have been EXECRATED by the Messrs. Villemessant 1804 Introd | aspiration of her heart, to execute which she invented characters 1805 CXCVII | it is the oppressor and executioner, I shall tell it that it 1806 CCCII | that he is happier than his executioners.~15th January, 1876~It is 1807 CLXXXV | suppressions of newspapers, executions without trial, etc.? Ah! 1808 CCLXIV | consistent! A man with such an executive ability does not have so 1809 XLV | counsel, dear master, I have EXERCISED!!! Am I not splendid; eh?~ 1810 CXCVII | at that very instant, it exercises a power without control 1811 CXCVII | re-invigorated and rejuvenated. Vital exhalations can issue still from the 1812 CLXXXIX | miasmas of egotism that exhale from every mouth. The sight 1813 Introd | libertine, in matters of art he exhibited the intolerance of weakness 1814 Introd | human caprice, but to the exigencies of the common weal, which 1815 XXI | clear memories of other existences. Much imagination and learning— 1816 XCIV | One spends hours over the exits and entrances of the characters 1817 CCXXXI | wilderness of woods in a great expanse of country, where not one 1818 LVI | paralyzed in the midst of its expansions, because tomorrow can bring 1819 Introd | during which the proud expansive spirit and the grandiose 1820 CCLXXIX | However...We should have to expatriate ourselves then. But how 1821 CXXXVI | fairy play would entail expenses that would be too much for 1822 CCXXIII | the house at Croisset is expensive. I think I shall give up 1823 CCCI | which radicalism praises is experimentally denied by physiology and 1824 CCL | made any mistake in his experiments, and knows indeed those 1825 CLXXX | France. She is going through expiation for her madness, she will 1826 CCLXXXIII | have seen at our house. He expired very quietly without suspecting 1827 CLXXIII | is here, and Maurice is explaining to him the geology of the 1828 VII | s moi, one completes it, explains it better, entirely develops 1829 CXCVII | peoples; it is all over with exploited peoples who have consented 1830 CCLXXIII | Not enough is made of the exploiters. There should be ten instead 1831 CCXLIV | merchandise, the salesman who exploits it, appreciates only the 1832 XIII | plan accordingly. Let me explore Rouen which I don’t know, 1833 XVI | vessel. The artist is an explorer whom nothing ought to stop, 1834 CCLXXXII | know that once more I am exposing myself to the storms of 1835 CCLXXIX | seems to me to be better expounded there than in the books 1836 Introd | incidents, and what sort of mind expresses a lifetime of brooding on 1837 CLXXXV | Badinguet on the throne EXPRESSLY to make peace, ready to 1838 CCLXXVIII | the theatres bring about extends! The bourgeois of Rouen, 1839 CCXIII | died from having lived too extensively in the mind. I beg of you 1840 CCCVIII | is what seems to be the exterior quite simply inside it? 1841 Introd | the same hard merciless externality that distinguish the evolution 1842 CCXCIX | idea) is still to seek.~Externally my life is scarcely changed: 1843 CCLXXIX | tell you that I am bored to extinction here. I came here obediently 1844 Introd | it, and ultimately almost extinguishes it.~The son of an eminent 1845 CCXXXVI | DESIRES.~My roots, one can’t extirpate them, and I am astonished 1846 CLXXXVIII | manner of judging. They extolled an actress not as an actress, 1847 Introd | argument. In making the extract I have altered somewhat 1848 Introd | time and from the emotional extravagance of books grown tedious, 1849 Introd | directions freely, gaily, extravagantly. Now that she has definitely 1850 CCXCV | feel better than at her extremities, in the provinces.~I assure 1851 Introd | dispensation and in her benedictive exuberance towards all the creatures 1852 CLXXV | midst of all that, my soul exults and has ecstasies of faith; 1853 CCLXXIV | comparison! Well, I don’t bat an eye-lid. That is the truth.~But 1854 Introd | take the picture of the eyeless, idiotic beggar on the road 1855 CXCVII | be, is to begin again the fable of the pedagogue and the 1856 CCLXXXIX | is always very funny and facetious.~Tell us of yourself and 1857 CXCVII | more than ever the idea of factitious distinctions, the inequality 1858 CCLX | finished l’Essai sur les facultes de l’entendement by Gamier, 1859 Introd | reflective and critical faculties in this intercourse of natural 1860 LXXXVI | Christianity has been a fad and I confess that in every 1861 CCXLIII | the world.”~La Roche aux Fades is an exquisite idyll. One 1862 CCLXXVI | household, from Maurice to Fadet, how is it?~Kiss the dear 1863 CCLVII | point of view.~“J’allume le fagot,” etc., all of this long 1864 Introd | natural antagonists. As M. Faguet observes in a striking paragraph 1865 CIII | play they are rehearsing fails. As I do not know how to 1866 CXXX | foreseeing that they will have failures.—When they are successful, 1867 XXXI | they laugh, they even have faint inclinations towards love, 1868 XX | occupied with Agricultural Fairs, talking Sport, acting indifferent, 1869 CCCXIII | bravo” to you again, and faithfully yours.~Gustave Flaubert~ 1870 CLVII | AVENGED HIM! (against a faithless one).~Every pharmacist in 1871 CLXXXVII | horrible occurrence without falling into a bitter despair. I 1872 CLXXXVIII | Saint-Victor for la Paiva. And this falseness (which is perhaps a consequence 1873 XXXIII | its heavy notes—and its faltering notes, in the end it is 1874 CLXXXVIII | ladies called themselves familiarly “cochonnettes.” Those girls 1875 Introd | 1845, he succeeded to the family-seat at Croisset, near Rouen, 1876 CLXXI | Farming is going to nought, famine threatens, poverty is lurking 1877 CXXI | Long live Saint Polycarp!~Fangeat, who has reappeared recently, 1878 IV | content to have written Fanie and Salkenpeau I am content 1879 CCXVII | has found only the pure fantasies of his own invention. I 1880 CCVII | at the Opera-Comique with Fantasio. Shall one ever get to hating 1881 CCLVII | would be funny if Carvalho’s fantasticality was crowned with success!~ 1882 Introd | theosophical socialism, is too fantastically garbed to charm the sober 1883 CCLII | are preparing a mid-Lent fantasy; try to take part. Laughter 1884 CXXI | Heavens! What a beautiful and farcical thing is the life of the 1885 CCXCVII | and garden, or is there a farm and grounds! If it is not 1886 CXCVII | hunters and shepherds, then farmers and soldiers. Brigandage 1887 CLXXI | we have war, what luck!~Farming is going to nought, famine 1888 Introd | history.~We may go still farther than that towards wiping 1889 CCXLIII | how well sustained, how fascinating, how charming! What a creature 1890 CLXV | more liking for it; the fascination is gone. There are so few 1891 LXXXVI | shall not get ahead too fast.~You worry me when you tell 1892 CVI | Sand had copied this and fastened it over her work table at 1893 XLV | give me a recipe for going faster: and you complain of seeking 1894 CLXXII | and our immense error, our fatal error, is to think it like 1895 CVI | rediscover with surprise in the fatalist Pascal!~“Nature acts progressively, 1896 XXXIII | our own ideas and ruled by fatality, they do not always appear 1897 Introd | master Pierre Leroux; her father-confessor Sainte-Beuve; and Gustave 1898 III | windows in pursuit of the fatted calf. And they say that 1899 XXXIV | I saw her yesterday in Faustine, in which she showed talent. 1900 XCI | cause me to be looked at favorably by the bourgeois. I am rubbing 1901 CXCVII | those certain people, the favorites of your heart, must be happy 1902 XXIV | doing this, if the thing is feasible, you will do me a personal 1903 LXI | come here, there would be feasting and joy in the family. I 1904 CCXLIII | becoming a kept woman, is a feat. Your Madame de Thievre, 1905 Introd | the prime distinguishing feature was the great doctrine of “ 1906 LXVII | prettiest of all the villages, Fecamp, Saint-Valery, which I knew, 1907 CXCIX | germs of an incalculable fecundity. Give it liberty but not 1908 XVI | However, we are a little fed up with dolmens and menhirs 1909 CCC | try the opposite; you are feeding on Shakespeare just now, 1910 XXXIX | the Marengo letter in a feigned hand to see if you would 1911 Introd | are not quite the most felicitous watchwords for the use of 1912 CXXXV | to me hackneyed. Raphael Felix didn’t seem to me eager 1913 CCCXIII | read it instantly, at one fell swoop, only stopping to 1914 CLXXXVII | adventurers of the Empire; other felons but the same cowardice.~ 1915 CCXCIX | mediocre beside that prodigious felow.~As I go out very little, 1916 XLVIII | nor infinity, nor male nor female. It is a thing against nature; 1917 XLV | years ago than now. I am feminized and softened by wear, as 1918 CCLV | writing to my friend General Ferri Pisani, whom you know, who 1919 CXCVII | survive itself. Its death fertilizes nothing and those who breathe 1920 LXXIV | reading the papers with fervor, reading novels which make 1921 CXL | ready for our Christmas festivals with the family at home. 1922 XV | Brittany, I shall go to fetch them, if not I shall go 1923 LXXIV | vacation there is a little fete which she organizes.~Little 1924 XVI | menhirs and we have fallen on fetes and have seen costumes which 1925 CXXII | words! No more symbols nor fetiches! The great moral of this 1926 CCLIII | as an example of modern fetidness, in the last number of the 1927 CCXLV | admire Ponsard and Octave Feuillet more than father Dumas and 1928 XLII | more easily good than this feverish halting-place. Will you 1929 CI | found —— stupid. He compares Feydeau to Chateaubriand, admires 1930 CIV | from seven to nine hours in fiacres every day, which is a fine 1931 XXXV | Cascaret, that is to say, the fiance in question, keeps himself 1932 XXXV | question, keeps himself for his fiancee. She said to him, “Let us 1933 CLV | Punch has lost only his fiddle and he is still smiling 1934 CCCVIII | violently, having felt a fierce pleasure in contemplating 1935 Introd | and undistracted by the fiery lovers of the old time, 1936 CI | them. I have reached my fiftieth year, and it is not their 1937 CCXLV | Thursday next I shall be fifty-one years old.~If you are not 1938 CCXLVII | him.~I enter today upon my fifty-second year, and I insist on embracing 1939 Introd | privately urges her in a finely figurative passage of a letter which 1940 XXXVI | cabinet wherein were all figures of celebrities, kings, emperors, 1941 Introd | the whole, a natural and filial daughter of the French Revolution. 1942 CCC | you call some one in HIGH FINANCE? For my part, I don’t know; 1943 CCI | everything, theatre, novels, finances, politics, etc. What a race 1944 CCCXVII | aside a year ago after my financial disaster. Matters are improving 1945 CCCXI | open arms, for, although a financier to his finger-tips he has 1946 L | well, and he is gay as a finch, because the sun shines 1947 Introd | privately urges her in a finely figurative passage of a 1948 CCLXV | me, as hard to put your finger on as other theatrical managers.~ 1949 CCCXI | although a financier to his finger-tips he has remained very friendly 1950 L | and wine in honor of his firemen.~The AMERICAN [Footnote: 1951 CXXV | the artistic and literary firmament over our heads. Bah! that 1952 Introd | subject. After Flaubert, a first-rate sociological investigator 1953 Introd | I looked exactly like a first-year student.” In the freedom 1954 CXIII | dinner; I dine on a little fish, a chicken wing, an ice 1955 CLX | brought to me this morning. I fished mine back from the porter; 1956 LXIV | natives at home, peasants, fisherfolk, a real village in a corner 1957 XVI | ship in full sail, or on a fisherman’s vessel. The artist is 1958 Introd | paints the man who might fitly have matched her spirit; 1959 CXXII | external form that it is fitting to give the fantastic and 1960 CXV | it is another day. Let us fix it for it is a fact that 1961 XLIV | does not dream of grasping, fixes itself in one because it 1962 CXXII | these pigeon holes. All the flags have been so soiled with 1963 Introd | seventeen years her junior, the flamboyance of youth was long since 1964 Introd | ever fluttered about one flame. There was Aurelien de Seze; 1965 CLV | dolls. As for me, I can flap only one wing, but I kiss 1966 CCLVI | as the Muscovite had a flask full of excellent brandy 1967 LXI | LXI. To GUSTAVE FLATUBERT Nohant, 24 July, 1867~Dear 1968 CCCXIII | your book again to find the flaws in it. But I think that 1969 XXXII | shouldn’t one curse the flesh like the Catholics? God 1970 XCIII | aforesaid head was named M. Fleuriot d’Argentan. I am not any 1971 IV | Palaiseau 9 May, ’66.]~ M. Flobaire, You must be a truly dirty 1972 CLI | box, proscenium, ground floor. I am heavy-hearted about 1973 LVIII | a parallel with Monsieur Floquet who cries without any danger: “ 1974 CCLXI | above all it is pretty. The flora is always rich and interesting, 1975 CCCXI | him at the Hotel Italy in Florence. We shall have to be on 1976 Introd | Crowd and The Mill on the Floss, and of Wordsworth, once, 1977 XXI | arrive at ’48 when they floundered much more, but so as to 1978 CLXXXVI | ecclesiastics are going to flourish again!~I have started at 1979 CCLII | and the hope of seeing you flourishing again. We are waiting for 1980 CCLXIII | shorter holidays; but the flowering of the meadow saffron always 1981 Introd | loud murmur of the river flowing in the darkness at the foot 1982 LXXI | a lover of this sort of fluff:~“One evening, expected 1983 LVI | first revolution a maddening fluid which inspired one to commit 1984 Introd | friends and lovers that ever fluttered about one flame. There was 1985 LXXIV | shrieks of laughter at a fly that circles about; sewing 1986 XLVII | the wind groans, the river foams and overflows. It blows 1987 CXCVII | that of Germany will be the focus of the pestilence of Europe. 1988 Introd | our own time with the same foes, our professional advocates 1989 CXCVII | still in its tense hands, a fold of the starry mantle of 1990 Introd | head stood up above the foliage.~“Running towards it, they 1991 CXCVII | live on the scorn of honest folk, and struggle between the 1992 CCLXIX | you.~We all embrace you fondly.~G. Sand~ 1993 XLVI | sensation of stifling and a fondness for inertia. I was not able 1994 CCLXVI | top-knot by the baptismal font, beside the chubby-cheeked 1995 CCXX | lawsuit. The story of la Fontaine is not ended. I am tired, 1996 CCCII | strong men pass among the fools and the imbeciles that you 1997 CCLXXXII | myself to the storms of the footlights (pretty metaphor) and that “ 1998 CCLXXII | hall was detestable, all fops and students who did not 1999 CCLXII | another power.~When they forbade the playing of Mademoiselle 2000 XXXV | by day and night is not a forceful nature. His brain is very 2001 CCLXXVI | for Russia, his trip will forcibly interrupt his frenzy for 2002 CXC | one’s affairs oneself and forcing the charming proletariat