Letter

2003 Introd    |            more and more depressed; he forebodes a general collapse of civilization—
2004 CCLXII    |              general, I am not without forebodings. What a fine thing is Censorship!
2005 CLXXVIII  |           eating in a country which is foreign to them!”~The war (I hope)
2006 C         |             polished! I think that the foreigners do better than we do. They
2007 Introd    |            hung to his breast, and his forepaws, half concealed beneath
2008 CXXX      |            plays, and accept too many, foreseeing that they will have failures.—
2009 CCXLVI    |              gets to the point even of forestalling, of overcoming in advance,
2010 CLXXI     |             here. They are burning the forests; another barbarous stupidity!
2011 CXC       |                It will be foolish. You foretold that, and I don’t doubt
2012 CCLXXVIII |         assizes under an accusation of forgery. NOT TO SUCCEED IS A CRIME
2013 LIX       |        intervals of innocence in which forgetfulness of evil compensates for
2014 CVI       |             idea of life, and when the formalities and formulas are still more
2015 LXVII     |             grass of the immense Roman fort of Limes where I had quite
2016 CXCVIII   |                to le Temps for my next fortnightly contribution; for I have
2017 CLXV      |                me that I am becoming a fossil, a being unrelated to the
2018 CLVI      |       god-child of Queen Hortense, and foster-sister of Napoleon III.] is very
2019 CLXXV     |                am as tired as if I had fought with our poor soldiers.~
2020 V         |          nonchalantly on the edge of a foul ditch. I forgot my sorrow
2021 CCXXXIX   |              OPPRESSED by Girardin, by Fould, by Dalloz, and by the first
2022 C         |          except myself, because of the foundation of careless unconventionally
2023 CLXXXIV   |                been torn from its very foundations, even in the country where
2024 XCIII     |               balls that the future is founded.” (Camilla Doucet.)~But
2025 CXCV      |             and the International will founder because it is in the wrong.
2026 CCXXXI    |              being, not a sheep, not a fowl, nothing but flowers, butterflies
2027 XXVII     |             friend last evening in the foyer at the Odeon. I shook hands
2028 CCLVII    |               struck me: (1) the first fragment; (2) the second in which
2029 XVII      |              about two thirds but only fragmentarily. What struck me most was
2030 XIX       |               am going to have a large frame made and hang it on my wall,
2031 XL        |             deep chasm between the two Frances.~Bouilhet told me that you
2032 Introd    |               the trying period of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, these
2033 CCLXVI    |                to the civic funeral of Francois-Victor Hugo. What a crowd! and
2034 CCXLIII   |            portrait of the Marquise de Francqueville in her old age.~I submit
2035 CCXII     |              enemy. Such is my system. Frankness is part of loyalty; why
2036 CIII      |           woman now? She is becoming a freak in society.~Good night,
2037 XCIX      |           polish it up again when I am freed from my odious bourgeois,
2038 CXIII     |             evening, Friday, and if he frees me, I shall go to your house
2039 XLVIII    |               It was entitled Giovanni Freppa ou les Maioliques.~Oh! what
2040 Introd    |              law, which he also hated; frequented the theatres and studios;
2041 CCCIX     |                Flamarande and the Deux Freres. What a charming woman is
2042 CCLXXIV   |             and I want to reread it to freshen up MY IDEAL.~
2043 CCXVI     |          translated by Barni, and I am freshening up my Spinoza. During the
2044 LXXXIV    |         MURMURING and which brings you freshness in your den! I would chat
2045 CCCV      |          remarkable, both of them.~The fright which the elections caused
2046 CV        |               trimmed with white satin fringed and laced with silver. I
2047 LXVII     |               but I am returning quite frisky.~
2048 CCLXIX    |               which make you go to and fro are good for you.~We all
2049 CXL       |            friends. And then, when one frog begins to croak, all the
2050 CV        |              charades, had supper, and frolicked till daylight. You see that
2051 VI        |                I dedicated the last to Fromentin.~I am waiting until it is
2052 CCLXI     |                my river baths till the frost.~There was no more question
2053 CCLXXII   |                March, 1874~Speaking of FROSTS, this is one! People who
2054 CCLXII    |                folly, you should bawl, froth at the mouth, and smash
2055 CCXLIII   |             poignard into his heart, I frowned first, fearing that it might
2056 CLXXXVII  |              me whether the tulip tree froze this winter, and if the
2057 CCXLIII   |               the imprisonment of Pere Fructueux which could be commonplace
2058 Introd    |              to judging trees by their fruits, we should err if we dismissed
2059 CCCV      |                and the actor who plays Fulgence is inadequate. But everything
2060 CCCII     |            becomes literary art in its fullest expression; that is why
2061 CCI       |                of a nation. I am worth fully twenty electors of Croisset.
2062 CCXIX     |              is the only thing that is functioning. My brain is too stupefied.~
2063 CXCVII    |            intended to give itself and functions by brute force, without
2064 CXXII     |        concerning yourself with relief funds, and even with agriculture,
2065 CCLXXIII  |       theatrical mystery is one of the funniest things of this age. One
2066 CLXV      |           ladies, “my little locality” furnishes none of them, and then,—
2067 CCLXXIV   |                have liked to renew the furniture at Croisset, fooled again!~
2068 LX        |        outskirts of Tamaris, among the furthest rocks, great boats well
2069 Introd    |           first, sometimes inseparably fuses with it, and ultimately
2070 XLIII     |                Charming! I continue to fuss over my novel, and I shall
2071 XLIII     |              spend several hours a day fussing over one’s INCOME. Charming!
2072 XX        |               works.” We shall have to gabble when you are here. Have
2073 XXVIII    |                extremely useful. If he gains his suit relative to the
2074 CCCVI     |             the thing that I shall not gainsay, meanwhile making a PHILOSOPHICAL
2075 LXXXI     |                I live on sour wine and galette, and since I am not trying
2076 XVIII     |              them, had they opened the galgal of Lockmariaker and cleared
2077 CCXXXVII  |              such is my ancient French gallantry. The first one had bored
2078 CCXXXVI   |             have to take her at a hard gallop. To understand fascinates
2079 XLIV      |            amusing herself better with games she invents, than with those
2080 CCLX      |           facultes de l’entendement by Gamier, which I think very silly.
2081 CCXLIII   |                anyone has made a Paris gamin real; he is not too generous,
2082 Introd    |           exalted to the height of its gamut by the influences of nature,
2083 XLVIII    |              dirty wages? That was the gangrene in this great and admirable
2084 Introd    |              of this rather unalluring garb she entered into relations
2085 Introd    |        socialism, is too fantastically garbed to charm the sober spirits
2086 CCLXVI    |            Paris. I gulped a volume by Garcin de Tassy on Hindustani literature,
2087 XXXI      |                in my little house. The gardener and his family live in the
2088 CCLXXXIV  |                the agriculture and the gardening, and I shall only then be
2089 CLXIV     |           vigorous and strong. Maurice gardens all day. The children are
2090 VII       |         Sylvester’s. By leaving Paris, gare de Sceaux, at I o’clock,
2091 CCLXXVIII |                Footnote: Cf. Rabelais’ Gargantua.] is a fine dream, but nothing
2092 XLVIII    |                one can only compare to Garibaldi. A creature of incredible
2093 LVI       |            earth engenders nowadays, a gas, laughing or otherwise,
2094 CVIII     |               Calamatta is at the last gasp.~Give me the address of
2095 CCXLIX    |        Gressent and the Agriculture of Gasparin. In this connection, Maurice
2096 XXVIII    |               often scratching at your gate in passing, giving you a
2097 CCXXXI    |              Cauterets and the lake of Gaube? And the route of Saint-Sauveur?
2098 CCLXX     |               I have just finished the Gaule poetique of Marchangy (the
2099 CCXXXI    |           without seeing the Cirque of Gavarnie, and the road that leads
2100 CCLXX     |               other things, it will be gayer.~H. M. the Emperor of all
2101 CCLXXVI   |              Deux Mondes, including la Gazette de France and le Constitutionnel.
2102 CCXII     |            today in Nadar’s Memoirs du Geant, a paragraph on me and the
2103 XX        |              if we could know our real genealogy. For, since the elements
2104 CCLX      |       committing in Spain! So that the generality of humanity continues to
2105 CCL       |            there is any opportunity to generalize. His reasoning has been
2106 XXXVI     |              been there appreciated by generals and other officers of the
2107 PrefNote  |             McKenzie, all of whom have generously assisted in revising the
2108 LXXXVI    |               mine of master-pieces of genre. That made me love Normandy
2109 LXVII     |               going on. But I gathered gentians in the long grass of the
2110 CCXII     |         bourgeois of Rouen; no one was gentler to them, I add even more
2111 CCLXXXIV  |                calm, France is sinking gently like a rotten hulk, and
2112 Introd    |             and degrading resignation; genuine resignation grows out of
2113 XCIII     |          suggested gerre of the lakes (genus, Gerris). Well! neither
2114 CCXCI     |               little archeological and geological excursion in Calvados, and
2115 CCXCV     |             for imbecility contains no germ. Let me believe that the
2116 CXCVII    |              we shall have to pity the German nation for its victories
2117 CXCVII    |             than we are. Wait till the Germanic race gets to work, the race
2118 CCXXXVI   |           develops at once all that is germinating in the soil; they make me
2119 CXCIX     |               because they contain the germs of an incalculable fecundity.
2120 XCIII     |              Georges Pouchet suggested gerre of the lakes (genus, Gerris).
2121 XCIII     |             gerre of the lakes (genus, Gerris). Well! neither the one
2122 CCLVI     |            this summer, to go to Saint Gervais, to bleach my nose and to
2123 Introd    |              himself makes a momentary gesture towards the white flag,
2124 Introd    |               subjects, which are of a ghastly repulsiveness; the same
2125 XLIII     |                to be old, very old, as giants live, since you are of that
2126 CLXXVII   |                infernal chasm makes me giddy.~Ready-made phrases are
2127 CLV       |              is still smiling and well gilded. Lolo’s baby has had misfortunes,
2128 XLVIII    |            last sheet. It was entitled Giovanni Freppa ou les Maioliques.~
2129 XXVI      |               out as the Turk with the giraffe.~A newspaper in Rouen, le
2130 XXVIII    |                the dignity of a negro “giraffier,” but he loves, he is engaged,
2131 CXXXVIII  |               be rolled in the mud. La Gironde calls me Prudhomme. That
2132 XL        |             much the worse for me! How gladly I shall abandon this sort
2133 XXXVII    |             imbecility. I have still a globe of goldfish and that amuses
2134 LXI       |                heart. I see, when I am gloomy, your kind face, and I feel
2135 XXIII     |             the sun from Nohant. It is glorious.~I embrace and bless you.~
2136 CI        |                means escapes them. The glosses for them are more important
2137 CCLXXIX   |              in three weeks I shall be glued to my green table! in a
2138 CXC       |                all the better the more gnarly they are. Thank you for
2139 Introd    |                to scatter the swarming gnats.”~And now take any characteristic
2140 CCXXXVI   |              blush; because its crimes gnaw at my vitals, because I
2141 CLXII     |                s powerful book? I have gobbled it down, the first volume
2142 CLVI      |              Flaubert to Madame Cornu, god-child of Queen Hortense, and foster-sister
2143 XXIV      |              you has become a friendly GODDESS. After that I had the society
2144 XCVIII    |                of Aurore, and I am the godmother. My nephew is the godfather
2145 CXCI      |            good speech against it; the godson of your friend Michel de
2146 Introd    |            years earlier, he with Mary Godwin joined Byron and Jane Clairmont
2147 XLIV      |              is that of being~THOU WHO GOEST SEEKING, AT SUNSET, FORTUNE! ...~
2148 XXXVII    |                I have still a globe of goldfish and that amuses me. They
2149 CCLXXIII  |                parallel between me and Gondinet follows.~The theatrical
2150 LXIX      |                all laugh together like good-natured bears; no one dresses; there
2151 XXVI      |             and the Seine the color of gooseberry sirup. I worked at the engine
2152 CLXVI     |               are only three now! I am gorged with coffins like an old
2153 LXXIV     |             little brain.~But how I am gossiping with you! Does all this
2154 VI        |                Sirenne, and some other Goulards of your kind and of mine.
2155 CCCVIII   |                Does the law of numbers govern then the feelings and the
2156 CCLXII    |              is Censorship! Axiom: All governments curse literature, power
2157 LXXXVII   |              heat (trop picole, as the governor of the chateau of Versailles
2158 CXCVII    |               Your chosen chiefs, your governors, your inspirers, are they
2159 LXIX      |              You live in your dressing gown, the great enemy of liberty
2160 CCXXXI    |                What a fine summer! The grain is seven feet high, the
2161 CIV       |            time of La Harpe, they were grammarians; at the time of Sainte-Beuve
2162 CXLIV     |          another departure, that of my grand-nephew Edme, my favorite, the one
2163 C         |                grandson instead of two granddaughters, and a Catholic baptism
2164 CXCVII    |               your winding sheet. Past grandeurs have no longer a place to
2165 LXXII     |                 Will you be there? God grant it! On the whole I am pretty
2166 XX        |             from having eaten too many grapes on the Syrian shores, I
2167 XLIV      |            which one does not dream of grasping, fixes itself in one because
2168 CCXXXI    |                 the flowers, the great grasses in a delicious shade. It
2169 LXXXIV    |              would make that fantastic grating of the chain [Footnote:
2170 Introd    |            social reformation, remarks gravely and not without tenderness:~“
2171 CIV       |              to lie down in one of the graves.~And the PROGRESSIVES think
2172 CCCII     |              to perceive the continual gravitation of all tangible and intangible
2173 CCCXVI    |            have rejoined her, when the great-grand-children of the grandchildren of
2174 CCXV      |                my grandchildren and my great-nephews.~I embrace you for myself
2175 CCCIX     |               and to speak truly, your greatness.—I, poor wretch, I am stuck
2176 Introd    |         Palestine, Constantinople, and Greece; and he had one, and only
2177 CXCV      |           wrong. No ideas, nothing but greed!~Ah! dear, good master,
2178 XX        |              of the Punic wars, then a Greek rhetorician in Subura where
2179 III       |               your affectionate little greeting to Bouilhet.~At the present
2180 CCXLIX    |         mention the Potager moderne of Gressent and the Agriculture of Gasparin.
2181 CCXCVI    |               to be indifferent to the griefs which we are sharing with
2182 Introd    |          amelioration of its heart; he grimly concedes the greater part
2183 CIV       |             interruptions in the daily grind. I could not do otherwise,
2184 XCIII     |              and short.~Few books have gripped me more than Cadio, and
2185 CCCXI     |        interesting, I might almost say GRIPPING.~I embrace you and I love
2186 CCC       |             the author who puts men at grips with events; observe that
2187 CCXLIII   |                confiscate his nephew’s grisette! And Antoine, the good fat
2188 CCLXXXIV  |             myself about my work, I am groaning about myself. That is the
2189 XLVII     |             tides are superb, the wind groans, the river foams and overflows.
2190 Introd    |           which the rest of us blindly grope for: “He is imbecile, people
2191 XXXVII    |                my ideas after infinite gropings. Not one who seizes the
2192 CIII      |           surprised to find a basis of gross self-sufficiency in these
2193 CCLXXXII  |                that you are finding me grouchy and that you are going to
2194 Introd    |                not only true but real, grouped about a type intended to
2195 CXCVII    |               impossible; there are no groups, there is no club, there
2196 C         |               we either put on airs or grovel: the Frenchman has no longer
2197 CXCVI     |                at this period of their growth, but with such beautiful
2198 Introd    |             take Bovary’s bungling and gruesome operations on the club-footed
2199 CCVIII    |                sick, you must not be a grumbler, my dear old troubadour.
2200 XLVII     |         himself short at times, and he grumbles “in the silence of his closet,”
2201 Introd    |          firmly settled, a shy, proud, grumpy toiling hermit of forty,
2202 LXXIII    |            thing is the brave national guards whom he stuffed in 1848,
2203 LXXXI     |              here are Depaul, Tarnier, Gueniaux and Nelaton who told us
2204 CCXXXIX   |              28 October, 1872~You have guessed rightly, dear master, that
2205 XCIII     |           Humanity turned to fury, the guillotine become mystic, life only
2206 CCLXXV    |                of all this GOSSIP; the guiltiest ones are those who report
2207 CCCIX     |               I have devoured with one gulp and one after another, Flamarande
2208 Introd    |               stupidity of men. After “gulping” down the six volumes of
2209 CXVII     |                but you might meet some guys whom you dislike. You would
2210 CCLXXXIV  |                has been offered to the Gymnase. No news up to now from
2211 CCLX      |                of your superb disdain.~Ha! good! again the hunting
2212 CLXXVII   |             But the earth is no longer habitable for the poor mandarins.~
2213 CCXXV     |               and perhaps even my only habitation. Paris hardly attracts me
2214 Introd    |                 and a barbaric temper, habitually somewhat lethargic but irritable,
2215 CLXXV     |         friends, who perhaps are to be hacked to pieces.~And YET, in the
2216 CCLVII    |      literature now. Far from it! I am hacking and re-hacking “le Sexe
2217 CCLXXIX   |               la Creation naturelle by Haeckel, a pretty book, pretty book!
2218 Introd    |         whether it rains or blows, for hail or thunder. I was not like
2219 Introd    |               had trickled through the hairs, and collected in stalactites
2220 XCIII     |              dear master. You send me “halcyon” to replace the word, “dragonfly.”
2221 XCII      |                TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT~The halcyons skim over the water and
2222 CCL       |              remedy, a minimum dose, a half-centigram of acetate of morphine taken
2223 Introd    |               like that formerly.”~The half-dozen works which Flaubert beat
2224 Introd    |                You think,” he cries in half-sportive pique, “that because I pass
2225 CCLXXII   |              must be said too that the hall was detestable, all fops
2226 CXXI      |        interest) between the different hallucinations of the Saint. This extravagant
2227 XLII      |                good than this feverish halting-place. Will you come into the
2228 CIV       |         rehabilitate Robespierre! Note Hamel’s book! If the Republic
2229 XLVII     |          honest and heroic. Give him a hand-shake for me, to thank him for
2230 CCLXXII   |                from my servant when he handed me your letter this morning.
2231 CXXVII    |              1869~I send you back your handkerchief which you left in the carriage.
2232 CCCII     |             world. But, as soon as you handle literature, you want, I
2233 LXXXIII   |              seemed dead but whom they handled so well that he is very
2234 LVII      |              des Feuillantines. A good handshake to Maurice. A kiss on the
2235 CCCV      |              as I had no other classic handy, and Aurora surprised Cruchard
2236 Introd    |             description of the leprous Hanno, or the physical surrender
2237 CCCII     |               enter gradually upon the happiest and most favorable time
2238 Introd    |             our materialistic thinkers hard-shell and soft-shell,—took the
2239 CXCVII    |              in your bosom, humane and hard-working men in great numbers, and
2240 CVII      |           effects. Could anything have hardened me more than having been
2241 Introd    |       Sentimentale, master of his art, hardening in his convictions, and
2242 XLV       |        softened by wear, as others get harder, and that makes me INDIGNANT.
2243 CCXXXVIII |               he suffered greatly from hardship during the siege. I understand
2244 CCVIII    |            charming mother and my wise hardworking son whom the end of the
2245 CCLXXVI   |           obeying the advice of Doctor Hardy, the man who called me “
2246 CLXXXVIII |           false credit, and even false harlots. They were called “marquises,”
2247 CI        |         trouble than a woman. I cannot harmonize the one with the other.
2248 XXXIII    |              do.~The wind plays my old harp as it lists. It has its
2249 CIV       |                more. At the time of La Harpe, they were grammarians;
2250 CCI       |               treats Pipe-en-Bois more harshly than M. Courbet, Maroteau
2251 CLXXI     |                is becoming scarce; the harvests are almost nothing; but
2252 CIV       |               by the princess, who was hasty; but the second and the
2253 CCLXXXII  |         imbecile babble.~“Europe which hates us, looks at us and laughs,”
2254 XLV       |         depressed at not being able to haunt the dells of Cyprus. He
2255 Introd    |                dazzling bits of color, haunting melancholy cadences in every
2256 CLXXXIX   |                against the Empire, and Haussman is going to present himself
2257 CLXV      |           charming story, Mademoiselle Hauterive, isn’t it? This suicide
2258 Introd    |             The storms and anguish and hazardous adventures that attended
2259 CCXLVII   |          myself!~Mourning once more: I headed the procession at the burial
2260 LV        |             tell you that I shall rush headlong towards your home.~As regards
2261 CCXCIV    |               by this rebuff. Think of healing those whom you love, and
2262 CCXLIV    |              it sparkling and gay, and healthful for us to breathe.~I was
2263 CCCII     |              skeptical, indifferent or heart-broken. You say that it ought to
2264 CCXL      |              the only BLACK SPOT in my heart-life, because you are sad and
2265 CCLVI     |               both felt a little heavy hearted. We did not talk, we did
2266 C         |                yourself up, to get all heated up, and besides for a work
2267 CCXL      |                run like rabbits in the heather which is higher than they
2268 CCXVIII   |                translated by Barni, is heavier reading than the Vie Parisienne
2269 CLI       |         proscenium, ground floor. I am heavy-hearted about all you tell me. Here
2270 Introd    |        marching through a wide defile, hedged in by two chains of reddish
2271 Introd    |            senses; the same rhetorical heightening—e.g., the “stalactites at
2272 CCCII     |          humanity is on the way to the heights. I believe it in spite of
2273 XXXIII    |               asked for and thought he held the bond. He had it no more
2274 LVI       |                We have fallen from the Hell of Dante into that of Scarron.~
2275 CCXX      |                These two great men are helping to stupefy me, and when
2276 CXCVI     |               one feels too much one’s helplessness to pluck up one’s heart
2277 CCXLIV    |              ten thousand others! That helps a great deal; for Maurice
2278 CCLII     |               a series of very painful hemorrhages; but they have not prevented
2279 CCXLVII   |                PURGE MYSELF, and to be henceforward more Olympian, a quality
2280 CCLX      |               good many others! What a Herculean constitution you have! Bathing
2281 CCLVI     |              shall begin my excursions hereabouts to discover a countryside
2282 XX        |             reproduce themselves? Thus heredity is a just principle which
2283 CCCII     |         already combated your favorite heresy, which is that one writes
2284           | Hereupon
2285 CLXIV     |            love of him. Is there not a heritage that our beloved dead leave
2286 Introd    |             shy, proud, grumpy toiling hermit of forty, in his family
2287 VII       |                away.~Do come to see my hermitage and Sylvester’s. By leaving
2288 LIV       |           everywhere you lead the same hermitlike existence. When you have
2289 CCLXXII   |             1830, I learned to read in Hernani, and I wanted to be Lara.”
2290 CCCXII    |               to describe the feast of Herodias.~I hope to have my readings
2291 CI        |             compare it to an attack of herpes. I scratch myself while
2292 LIX       |               Paris, that you must not hesitate to tell us. I have finished
2293 CCXCIX    |           contemporary novel, but I am hesitating among several embryonic
2294 LXXXVIII  |         courage to venture to say even hesitatingly, that possibly he is not
2295 CI        |          ideals. Thence embarrassment, hesitation, impotence.~As to whether
2296 CXCVII    |               life. I prefer that to a hibernation in the ice, to an anticipated
2297 XLVIII    |          monstrosities. I say that the hideous old man who buys young girls
2298 CLXXXIV   |               itself a myth? Either he hides himself or he burns you
2299 CLXXXVIII |                 and it will be (in the hierarchy of social elements) always
2300 XVIII     |                are stones covered with hieroglyphics, and they used to work in
2301 CCLVII    |               fellow.~I am not at such high-toned literature now. Far from
2302 XX        |                of continuing along the highroad which was broad and beautiful,
2303 XLII      |              into an oasis with better highways and possible to all. One
2304 C         |             because we were joyous and HILARIOUS and you would not distract
2305 Introd    |               by two chains of reddish hillocks, when a nauseous odor struck
2306 CCLVII    |             his excuse. But it did not hinder him from reading “Impressions
2307 XXVII     |             was hard to go away, but I hindered your work, and then,—and
2308 CXLIV     |              the fact that he is both, hinders him.—He must get straightened
2309 LXIV      |              explanation: I know every hindrance in life and I never blame
2310 III       |               my own house. As for the hindrances which the fair sex can oppose
2311 CCLXVI    |           volume by Garcin de Tassy on Hindustani literature, to get clean.
2312 LVIII     |             against our great national historian, M. Thiers, who had reached
2313 CIV       |    Sainte-Beuve and of Taine, they are historians. When will they be artists,
2314 CLXVIII   |               by them as if I had been hit on the head with a stick.
2315 CLXX      |      Civilization seems to me far off. Hobbes was right: Homo homini lupus.~
2316 CXXI      |             have taken up again my old hobby of Saint Antoine. I have
2317 CCI       |                 Societe anonyme), each holder votes according to the value
2318 XVI       |               past are ugly with their home-spun trousers, their long hair,
2319 CCCXIII   |                book, together with the homelife, the life in New York?~Your
2320 CLXX      |                 Hobbes was right: Homo homini lupus.~I have begun Saint-Antoine,
2321 CLXX      |             far off. Hobbes was right: Homo homini lupus.~I have begun
2322 CXC       |               Education does not teach honesty and disinterestedness overnight.
2323 LVI       |              fall into melancholies of honey and roses which are none
2324 CXCVII    |               I wield a pen, I have an honorable position of free discussion
2325 CCLXVIII  |               must be to think himself honored by honors.~
2326 CCLXVIII  |               think himself honored by honors.~
2327 CLXXXVIII |                not loot my house. They HOOKED some little things of no
2328 CIV       |                months now. What a big “Hooray” I shall utter, when it
2329 CXLIII    |          FLAUBERT 31 December, 1869~We hoped to have a word from you
2330 CXCVII    |               because in their place a horde of bandits followed by a
2331 LXIV      |                their houses, and their horizons. That is enough for what
2332 CCCVI     |              is discouraged, saddened, horrified, and contradicts you so
2333 CIV       |             that I have still to write horrifies me, or rather disgusts me,
2334 LXVII     |               I walked out like an old horse, but I am returning quite
2335 CCLV      |               you. He usually comes on horseback.~We are looking forward
2336 CLXXX     |              go south and were offered hospitality; but we did not want to
2337 CCLXII    |            last in the neighborhood of Houdan. But, before starting at
2338 CXXII     |             villages in France, Robert Houdins to work miracles! The greatest
2339 CCXX      |               this foolish business of housekeeping.~As for me, I have quite
2340 CXXXVI    |              puffs the books of Arsene Houssaye, won’t write articles on
2341 XXXIII    |            itself is very serious, and hovers above our art, above us
2342 XL        |           guitar and his apricot tunic howling at the black-gowned students
2343 Introd    |           conventional young lady, the hoyden was put in a convent, where
2344 XCVI      |               hum” where, after having hugged my children and my grandchildren,
2345 CCLXXXIV  |           sinking gently like a rotten hulk, and the hope of salvage,
2346 XCVI      |           October, 1868~Here I am “ter hum” where, after having hugged
2347 CCLXXXVI  |     discouraging things, to despair of human-kind, to look at my past sorrows
2348 CXCIX     |        thinking composes all morality. Humanitarianism, sentiment, the ideal, have
2349 CIV       |               of isidorian love, which humiliated me a little; for it was
2350 CLXXXV    |            beast is the crowd! and how humiliating it is to be a man!~I embrace
2351 CLXXVI    |               any price.~I AM DYING OF HUMILIATION. What a house mine is! Fourteen
2352 XXXVII    |           begin by expressing only the hundredth part of my ideas after infinite
2353 XXVI      |                  we would have ...” he hunted five minutes for the word; “
2354 CXCVII    |            effaced; the first men were hunters and shepherds, then farmers
2355 CLXXVIII  |          ancesters, the Natchez or the Hurons, boils in my educated veins,
2356 CCLVI     |              smart pace by two horses. Hurrah for the postillions of La
2357 LIX       |                 I have finished Cadio, hurray! I have only to POLISH it
2358 CXLVI     |              for Tuesday. I am working hurriedly to finish my corrections
2359 LXXXVI    |               can use the lash without hurting, if the hand is gentle in
2360 Introd    |              be taught that all French husbands ultimately behave; he was,
2361 CCLXXVIII |              failure of le Candidat in hushed voices (sic) and with a
2362 CCLXXII   |                drowned at once by the “hushes.” When they mentioned my
2363 CCLXXXIII |                enough, we are at least hustled out of doors by the beautiful
2364 CCXXXI    |              of country, where not one hut could be seen, not a human
2365 XC        |                the same to her. Father Hyacinthe replaces for her every friendship,
2366 CCLXIV    |             Cruchard. But I find it is hybrid and the character of Cruchard
2367 CLXXII    |              country was tending to be hypertrophied like France under Louis
2368 CLXXXIII  |           country!~Let us look for new hypocrisies: declamations on virtue,
2369 CXCIII    |               years there will be only hypocrites and blackguards!~Give me
2370 CCLXXXVI  |                 for it opens these two hypotheses, or to express it better,
2371 CLXXVII   |               you will say to me. That hypothesis is contrary to all historical
2372 CCLXX     |           Beranger). This book gave me hysterics.~So as to retemper myself
2373 Introd    |              an impulse of her lyrical idealism; she began with an aspiration
2374 Introd    |             philosophy into “beautiful idealisms” of a love emancipated from
2375 Introd    |                it. The most lyrical of idealists can do no more to reveal
2376 CCXXXVII  |      discourses and her pretensions to ideality; the second outraged me
2377 Introd    |          pictures of pastoral life are idealizations of it; her representations
2378 Introd    |                begins) the writer must idealize this love, and consequently
2379 LXXV      |            calmed, on the contrary! It idealizes itself and increases.~
2380 CIII      |              we complete ourselves, in identifying ourselves at times with
2381 CLXXXIII  |                Paganism, Christianity, idiotism, there are the three great
2382 LXXXIV    |              not sticking to anything. Idling is my dominant passion.
2383 CIV       |            real Parisian is more of an idolater than a negro is! It made
2384 XCVI      |                it is impossible not to idolize that little one. She is
2385 CCXLIII   |              aux Fades is an exquisite idyll. One would like to share
2386 CCLXXX    |          NATURAL force that defies the IFS and the BUTS of human prattle.
2387 CLXXXVII  |            suffering and even over the ignominy of others. I pity those
2388 CCXXXVI   |               one should not write for ignoramuses. They spurned me because
2389 CCLXXX    |                ought to do as I do and IGNORE criticism when it is not
2390 II        |                                        II. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Paris,
2391 CCXC      |               colors, I am reading the Iliad with Aurore, who does not
2392 Introd    |                to have estranged by an ill-concealed preference to her of his
2393 CXCVII    |          endeavor to believe that I am illuminated with a new light, while
2394 Introd    |             ask for no more impressive illustions than precisely, Madame Bovary
2395 CCXLV     |             work.~I read last week the Illustre Docteur Matheus, by Erckmann-Chatrian.
2396 CCCVIII   |              then the feelings and the images, and is what seems to be
2397 Introd    |         temperament lyrical, sanguine, imaginative, optimistic and sympathetic;
2398 CXCII     |            well on my volcanoes, and I imagined that all the world could
2399 XCIV      |               like a dream, unless one imagines a conspiracy of patients
2400 XLV       |               for two hours and a half imagining all sorts of things, pretending
2401 LXXXVIII  |                have they been somewhat imbecilic? What poor people!~And Sainte-Beuve?
2402 XXXIII    |              in the way of their legs. Imbued by our own ideas and ruled
2403 CXXII     |                But I am not capable of imitating him. Nature, far from fortifying
2404 XCI       |           Everything moves between the Immaculate Conception and the dinner
2405 CCCVIII   |               regards Jack, nor in the immensity of his admiration for Rougon.
2406 Introd    |       ourselves on Germany.”~Under the imminence of the siege of Paris, Flaubert
2407 XCIX      |             news!~Here is mine! I work immoderately and am absolutely ENCHANTED
2408 CLXVIII   |              words on this question of immortality, for the question is to
2409 CCCXVII   |                and-sincerely yours, ex imo.~Gustave Flaubert~
2410 Introd    |                from Flaubert under the impact of an experience which demonstrated
2411 Introd    |             which George Sand loved to impart, and which she had the gift
2412 Introd    |              the grandiose aspirations imparted to the nation by the first
2413 CCXCI     |             too much, perhaps to judge impartially. I am not going to leave
2414 Introd    |              which she had the gift of imparting, namely, joy, the spontaneous
2415 CLXXXIV   |              will so disgust us and so impel us to live from day to day
2416 Introd    |              ever before. “It can’t be imperative to work so painfully”—such
2417 XLIV      |                my daughter, who was an imperfect man.~I embrace you. Maurice
2418 XLVII     |             real biography I know very imperfectly. All I know of him is that
2419 CCLXXIX   |                 It is a masterpiece of impertinence! People do not write in
2420 Introd    |              been strongly united— the impetuous dreamy girl and her coarse
2421 Introd    |                hackneyed. She, with an impetus from her own private fortunes,
2422 Introd    |             but he rather resented the implication that his pessimism was personal,
2423 Introd    |              meaning of which shall be implicit in the plot and shall reach
2424 CCCI      |              etc.” Well? indeed! but I implore advice, and I am waiting
2425 CCLXXIII  |                Rounat, who in his page implores me, “in the name of our
2426 CXCVII    |               inequality of conditions imposed as a right acquired by some,
2427 XLII      |            after all, except temporary impossibility of digesting anything whatever.
2428 XXXV      |                weak also, and many are impotent. Some too strong in desire
2429 Introd    |              we should ask for no more impressive illustions than precisely,
2430 LXVIII    |                of wax; everything gets imprinted on him, is encrusted on
2431 CCXLIII   |                by the brigands and the imprisonment of Pere Fructueux which
2432 CCCVI     |                Your niece continues to improve, does she not? I too am
2433 CXCII     |                others by myself. I had improved my real character, I had
2434 CXC       |           progress, for he continually improves.~In what condition are we,
2435 Introd    |                obedient to the deepest impulses of her blood and her time,
2436 Introd    |          depravity which he has always imputed to the human race, the baseness
2437 LXVI      |              in order to put him in an in-pace. Consultation of lawyers
2438 CCXXVI    |               friend of my heart, your inability does not disturb me at all,
2439 LXXXI     |               Do you know that you are INACCESSIBLE in Paris? Poor old fellow,
2440 CLXXIX    |            abominable comedy? Why such inaction?~Ah! how sad I am. I feel
2441 LXXIII    |           Histoire parlementaire. Many inanities which burden us today come
2442 CLXXXIX   |                with the great Parisian inanity. With a very few exceptions
2443 CXCVII    |             out infamy with scorn, and inaugurate by faith the resurrection
2444 CCXXXIX   |               The 4th of September has inaugurated an order of things in which
2445 CXCIX     |                contain the germs of an incalculable fecundity. Give it liberty
2446 CCXX      |               not to hear of money.~My incapacity, in that direction, has
2447 CXXIV     |               I have the appearance of incarnate idleness in the midst of
2448 CXCII     |             Henry V. or the kingdom of incendiaries restored by anarchy? I who
2449 CCXXI     |            console her. Now, alas! the incessant and cruel task is ended,
2450 XXXII     |             come very easily with you, incessantly, like a stream. With me
2451 CLXV      |               happens to be touched on incidentally, it is always on its subordinate
2452 XXXI      |            laugh, they even have faint inclinations towards love, but it is
2453 CCXL      |              have had in your life the INCLUSION OF THE FEMININE SENTIMENT
2454 LXXIII    |       everything and more yet, with an incoherence more inept and more childish!
2455 L         |        sexagenarian troubadours do not incommode you.~Cadio is entirely redone
2456 CCLXX     |              great, the most holy, the incomparable Aristophanes. There is a
2457 CXXX      |           rascals in all that? No, but incompetents who are always afraid of
2458 CCI       |             given such a proof of your inconceivable candor! Now, seriously,
2459 CCLXXXII  |                from one. They are very inconsiderate of one. They never salute
2460 CXXV      |               by my wounded hand which inconveniences me a good deal. I am not
2461 LXV       |             Paris the 19th. Will it be inconvenient if I come to see you? I
2462 Introd    |              Flaubert’s reiterated and increasingly ferocious assaults upon
2463 CCLXXXI   |              him my opinion about him; inde irae. However, it is impossible
2464 Introd    |               declares herself greatly indebted intellectually; but on the
2465 CCLI      |              that I was very ill in an indefinable way. But now I am better.
2466 CCXLV     |              service remains therefore indefinite, and in consequence, unpayable.~
2467 Introd    |          vipers, flounder and fight in indescribable welters of blood and filth,
2468 CXCV      |              is broken? Your bonds are indestructible, your sympathy can attach
2469 Introd    |          amusing, and at the same time indicative of her vague but deep-seated
2470 CCCI      |               all that I scorn and are indifferently disturbed about what torments
2471 CI        |                dry bread. And the most indigestible food, such as apples in
2472 CCLXXXIII |                who live in the woes of indigestion and yet hardly work at all,
2473 CCCXII    |             just the position to do me indirectly the greatest service that
2474 I         |         entirely alone. Is the request indiscreet? If not, a thousand thanks
2475 Introd    |              in his opinion, one quite indispensable quality: it lacks charm.
2476 XCVII     |           masses makes me indulgent to individualities, however odious they may
2477 XLVI      |               too slow, too feeble, an indolent or capricious stomach, with
2478 Introd    |              defence before the really indomitable “last ditch” of her position.
2479 Introd    |              the tendons of your mind, indulge a little the physical man.
2480 CCLVIII   |                one! you don’t know the ineffable pleasure of doing nothing!
2481 CXCVII    |             for the most part illusory inequalities. I do not know if your ancestors
2482 CXCVII    |           factitious distinctions, the inequality of conditions imposed as
2483 CCCII     |             out, in my opinion. Depict inert things as a realist, as
2484 XLVI      |            stifling and a fondness for inertia. I was not able to keep
2485 CXXII     |        important. The rest will follow inevitably. Purely intellectual men
2486 LIX       |               evil compensates for the inexperience of the golden age.~How is
2487 XLIV      |           subject. I have observed the infancy and the development of my
2488 CCXIII    |                of far niente; the most infantile amusements, the silliest,
2489 LIX       |        happiness! That is being really infatuated. My gloom has disappeared
2490 XXXV      |              and tranquil, and how his infatuations with the things he examines
2491 CCXVII    |              and patience before these infirmities? I suffer with you because
2492 CCXLIX    |             because of his melancholic infirmity,” but who, however, was
2493 CXXXV     |             Reds, that I am capable of inflaming revolutionary passions,
2494 CLXIV     |                without danger. But the inflammation was so bad that for three
2495 CXCVI     |                and of no interest, but inflexible. I do not know even if I
2496 LXVI      |                of 1841. Bad treatments inflicted on Barbes, kicks on his
2497 CCXLVI    |               work? Do let yourself be influenced then by this or that temporary
2498 Introd    |             height of its gamut by the influences of nature, triumphantly
2499 CC        |              youth, an intelligent and influential nucleus, a good play would
2500 CCXXXIII  |             Paris, tell him from me to inform you. He is a devoted fellow,
2501 CCLXXIII  |            unnecessary, since Arabelle informs Rousselin that his wife
2502 CCL       |          certain; and we would like to infuse in you a little of our Berrichon