Letter

4005 CXCVII    |              We must put an end to the scourge, wipe out infamy with scorn,
4006 CI        |              to an attack of herpes. I scratch myself while I cry. It is
4007 CCCII     |         However, I am sending you this scrawl so that you can see that
4008 CCCVI     |          mountains in travail roar and scream, but they sing beautiful
4009 XL        |              that Paris applauded him, screamed with enthusiasm.—He will
4010 CV        |      fascinates me and I set myself to scribbling on paper that will be left
4011 CCLXXXII  |            been swooning away about M. Scribe’s Une Chaine. France is
4012 CC        |               I am answering your post scriptum, if I had answered Flaubert
4013 CCC       |              persons concerned in that scullery. All of them are slaves
4014 CCXL      |                one loves is living and scurrying around one. You are the
4015 CCLXXIX   |                news from the depths of Scythia. He has found the information
4016 CCLVII    |                it simply sublime. This Scythian is an immense old fellow.~
4017 CXCVII    |       iniquities of your mysteries are sealed by fear, renounce noble
4018 V         |               most scrupulous combined searches I found at last the body
4019 Introd    |              himself, provided we will searchingly ask ourselves what sort
4020 XVI       |           craves Syrias, deserts, dead seas, dangers and fatigues! But
4021 CXXIII    |             were to take a trip to the seashore first if I am not mistaken.
4022 LXXV      |                 nevertheless, a fairly seasoned sense of fatigue, and it
4023 CLXXXVIII |               Novara, nor Russia after Sebastopol! But the good French hasten
4024 CXLVII    |                characters and too many second-rate actors, not good.—I do not
4025 CXXII     |           business was diplomacy. “The secrecy of the cabinets” really
4026 XCIII     |                Convention with his two secretaries, is of an incredible strength.
4027 CCXXXIII  |               Footnote: Sainte-Beuve’s secretary.] also.~You are surprised
4028 CLXVIII   |              Has death perhaps no more secrets to reveal to us than life
4029 CCXI      |             this spirit of party or of sect which makes people no longer
4030 XXI       |                 they will eat filth in secula seculorum.~I have heard
4031 XXI       |               will eat filth in secula seculorum.~I have heard you say, “
4032 XLIX      |             because he is your son and secundo because he is he. I find
4033 CXCVII    |              you assure them the least security?~Will you find me a refuge
4034 LIV       |               have shown him; you have seduced and ravished him, and he
4035 CCLVI     |            pretensions at pleasing and seducing by my physical graces, but
4036 Introd    |                lines of his attempt at seduction:~“Ah, dear good master,
4037 XVI       |            whole, Brittany is a famous see-saw.~However, we are a little
4038 CLXXXVIII |           Vendome column is sowing the seeds of a third Empire! Who knows
4039 CLIX      |             don’t know what exactly, A SEEKER—after what?— EVERYTHING.
4040           | seeming
4041 Introd    |            desire to present a certain segment of observed life. The author
4042 CCLXIV    |             Cathelineau and the one by Segur also. It is curious! The
4043 CCLXXXV   |                of clouds which the sun seldom pierces, and we cry ceaselessly
4044 CCLXXXII  |               humbug, of ignorance, of self-confidence, of scorn of grandeur, of
4045 Introd    |             others and the remorseless self-examination and self-torment commonly
4046 Introd    |              opportunity for unlimited self-expansion, and of literature as an
4047 CCC       |      congratulated for this attempt at self-respect.~
4048 Introd    |                so with equal candor of self-revelation they beautifully draw out
4049 Introd    |       remorseless self-examination and self-torment commonly attributed to the
4050 LVI       |              justice, because I live a selfish life having nothing to do
4051 CCXLIV    |             only a market in which one sells books. Not making concession
4052 CCLXIV    |           scintillation irritates like seltzer water, which is pleasing
4053 Introd    |                by some religious, some semi-mystical, amelioration of its heart;
4054 CCC       |             What do you mean! Littre a senator? It is impossible to believe
4055 CCXCIX    |              his court! ... mercy!~The senatorial elections are a subject
4056 CCV       |                not be claimed, for the sender would be liable to a suit.
4057 CCLXIII   |                and who is world: well, sends you a big kiss. Lina, Maurice
4058 CLVII     |         professor of mathematics? Your Senecal is his physical and moral
4059 CCI       |         depriving me definitely of the senior Berton and proposing his
4060 VI        |           which adorn your face.~Jorje Sens~The elder Goulard is my
4061 XLV       |               experience two identical sensations about them? I don’t think
4062 XLIX      |               from becoming blunted my sensibilities are sharper; a lot of insignificant
4063 CCXVIII   |               further I go the more my sensibility is exasperated. But the
4064 CXCVII    |           which develops only egoistic sensuality is not as good as the ignorance
4065 Introd    |              somewhat the order of the sentences:~“And what, you want me
4066 CCLXXXII  |                with the episode of the sentinel; (2) l’Histoire d’un Diamant
4067 Introd    |           adopts male attire: “I had a sentry-box coat made, of rough grey
4068 CCCIX     |          letter, this is, I think what separates us essentially. You, on
4069 CCCII     |             well! a further reason for separating ourselves still more from
4070 CVI       |          always like that. That sudden separation was sad, my poor Lina weeping
4071 CCXXXVIII |                What cruel and repeated separations! I am angry with you for
4072 CXCVII    |               if we have come from the serf, and from the class liable
4073 CCCII     |              that I am not clear in my sermons; I have that much in common
4074 CCXC      |               the time by his care and services without number.~We are all
4075 XXIX      |             gained his suit during the session.~Whether you have done it
4076 LX        |            women and children, a coast settlement, very restricted, very tanned;
4077 Introd    |         passage gives a glimpse of the seventeenth of January, 1869, a typical
4078 CCLVIII   |        condition, when one gets to the seventies, I begin my seventieth spring
4079 CLXXIX    |             door today two hundred and seventy-one poor people, and they were
4080 Introd    |           tightly drawn skin, his ribs severally protruded and his hind legs
4081 LXXVII    |             the wife of the artist] is severely threatened.~I saw M. Depaul
4082 Introd    |         philosophers were put to their severest trial. In 1870, George Sand
4083 XLIX      |              yet finished) journeys to Sevres, to Creil, etc.~Father Sainte-Beuve
4084 XXXV      |               the pedagogue. I love to sew and to care for children,
4085 CCCII     |                words, I am fleeing the sewer, and I am seeking the dry
4086 Introd    |              she abandons the domestic sewing-basket to reappear smoking black
4087 L         |         receive the fair sex, and when sexagenarian troubadours do not incommode
4088 Introd    |           flame. There was Aurelien de Seze; Jules Sandeau, her first
4089 CXXVIII   |              other. Here am I a little sfogata (eased) from my need for
4090 CXCVII    |             going to free man from his shackles and his prejudices, and
4091 CCLX      |               they talk as much of the Shah in Nohant as they do around
4092 XCIII     |            heads. I think you have one Shakespearean scene: that of the delegate
4093 XVII      |                rather good hoax on the shaking stones, but I have not the
4094 CXCVII    |             playthings, of having been shamefully ridiculous and cowardly,
4095 CXCVII    |             bold ambitions, scandal of shameless usurpations. That is the
4096 CCXCVI    |                the griefs which we are sharing with you. Tell us that calm
4097 CLXXV     |               the old world. There are sharp and clear principles for
4098 CCXVI     |           solid, for the blade is well sharpened; but everything is converted
4099 XLIX      |           blunted my sensibilities are sharper; a lot of insignificant
4100 CCXXVI    |            little ones are both in the sheepfold. I have taken good care
4101 XVI       |                wife have a passion for shellfish, we endured it all gaily.
4102 CXCVII    |           blush at seeing bandits take shelter under your name. In this
4103 LX        |                rocks, great boats well sheltered, with women and children,
4104 CXCVII    |             first men were hunters and shepherds, then farmers and soldiers.
4105 Introd    |                last she approaches the shield of human nature from the
4106 CCLXXXIX  |                Phoebus-Appolo with the shining hair, and all will go well.~
4107 XVI       |               embark either on a great ship in full sail, or on a fisherman’
4108 LXXXI     |            eggs made into an omelet or shirred, and a cup of coffee. Or
4109 CCLVII    |            That is to say that I would shock you by my exaggeration in
4110 CXIII     |            Palaiseau today to a master shoemaker who has a LEATHER plaster
4111 XXVII     |              the foyer at the Odeon. I shook hands with him. He had a
4112 CCLX      |             has had, on the commercial shop-keeping and artisan class, a monarchical
4113 CC        |            will fill the theatres? The shopkeepers of Paris, without a guide,
4114 CIV       |                of Montmorency, through shops of religious objects, etc.~
4115 XVI       |                 A horrible wind on the shore, but how beautiful the high
4116 XX        |              many grapes on the Syrian shores, I have been a pirate, monk,
4117 XLVI      |              let yourself be duped and shorn? It is not I who can teach
4118 XCIII     |             question of condensing and shortening it. If it is played, I’ll
4119 CCLXIII   |             months. Ordinarily, I take shorter holidays; but the flowering
4120 CCLXIV    |               is pleasing at first but shortly seems like nasty water.
4121 CXCVII    |           arrest. They would have been shot if they had remained in
4122 Introd    |               turned towards her right shoulder, the corner of her mouth,
4123 CXCV      |        squabbling about that, they are shouting, they are fighting!~As for
4124 CCLXXV    |               beforehand, and that the shrewdest are mistaken ten times out
4125 LXXIV     |            feels ill and bursting into shrieks of laughter at a fly that
4126 CCXIII    |         sanctuary, the interior little shrine, where, without saying anything
4127 LX        |              curiosity annoyed them. A shrug of the shoulders as if to
4128 Introd    |             resource of the studio, he shudders to find Paris painted in
4129 Introd    |         excitability of nerves that he shunned a day’s outing or a chat
4130 CCLXXXI   |                Germans who surround me shuts off the view of the Righi!!!
4131 Introd    |               he was firmly settled, a shy, proud, grumpy toiling hermit
4132 CLXIX     |              lazy after my fatigues as sick-nurse. Little Buloz recently came
4133 CXXV      |              soon, have courage in the sickening work of proof-reading. As
4134 XVII      |            nonsense! I think that I am sickeningly platitudinous, and I am
4135 XL        |             gentlemen who compose them sickens me. Oh! nothing restrains
4136 XXXIX     |               the infant arrives, I am sicker than she is, and even seriously
4137 CXXX      |                and the scandals of the side-scenes and the newspapers; and
4138 XX        |               they stray off by little sidepaths and flounder in mud holes.
4139 CXCVII    |              political disturbance has sidetracked it from the stage. When
4140 CCI       |          Victor Hugo in la Legende des siecles, where a sultan is saved
4141 CCLXXII   |              your handwriting, he said sighing: “Ah! the best one was not
4142 CCCII     |              one of the most beautiful sights of the year!~It appears
4143 Introd    |              was one whose entire life signally attested the power of a “
4144 Introd    |               help to explain the most significant difference between Flaubert
4145 XX        |             use the same expression to signify the most diverse ideas.
4146 XXXI      |               little stream which runs silently under the willows; a silence ...
4147 CCXIII    |              infantile amusements, the silliest, are enough for me and I
4148 CCLXXII   |                attack the republicans. Similarly the communists would have
4149 CCXLV     |              General Ladmirault, Jules Simon, Thiers? I think that the
4150 XLI       |                I answered at once that Simonin lived at 15 rue Richelieu,
4151 LXIV      |             were real dyed-in-the-wool simple-hearted men there. It would be good
4152 CCXLIII   |              theatre! The Russian is a simple-minded, natural man, a character
4153 CV        |              considered enchained. The simplest thing would have been not
4154 CVI       |                formulas are still more simplified, how full existence will
4155 CCXI      |              anathemas. I am trying to simplify a child’s approach to culture,
4156 Introd    |             that text on the “wages of sin.” Emma, to be sure, goes
4157 CCCXVIII  |              the dear little girls and sincerely yours, my good Maurice,~
4158 CCXXII    |         inclination to travel, and the sinews of war are lacking, I have
4159 Introd    |               tiger-moths escaped with singed wings; the odd transitional
4160 CCXC      |             renderings.~The child is a singular mixture of precocity and
4161 CCCII     |              personality. One wants to sink or swim with him. If he
4162 CCLXXXIV  |         respects, dead calm, France is sinking gently like a rotten hulk,
4163 V         |             yourself so well tell that siren that she has destroyed a
4164 VI        |               Palaiseau with Goulard’s Sirenne, and some other Goulards
4165 LX        |           alone among them. “Good day, sirs.” Response, a slight bend
4166 XXVI      |                the color of gooseberry sirup. I worked at the engine
4167 XII       |           inconvenience you as you are situated, and I shall leave Wednesday
4168 Introd    |              analysis. It demands true situations, and characters not only
4169 XLIII     |         willing. Why am I in love with Siverain? Perhaps because I am of
4170 CLXXXVIII |               eager to read to you the sixty pages which are done. When
4171 XXI       |          should not fear to show one’s sketches and drawings. They are still
4172 XCII      |          GUSTAVE FLAUBERT~The halcyons skim over the water and are common
4173 CCLXXIX   |          Carpentras urchin, offering a skit to the Beaumarchais theatre.~
4174 Introd    |         reproached us bitterly for our slack, sentimental pacificism;
4175 CCXLIII   |                think that the interest slackens a little when Nanon gets
4176 CXCV      |          ignorance of history makes us slander our own times. Man has always
4177 CCLXXVI   |               personally, a deliberate slandering, the cause of which I am
4178 Introd    |          occasion to speak of it, even slanders,—namely resignation. This
4179 CXLII     |            glad of it, for these great slatings are the sure proof of great
4180 CCXVI     |               for Sarah. Melingue is a sleep-walking drain-man, and the others
4181 CCCXIII   |                book has made me pass a sleepless night. I read it instantly,
4182 LI        |              to be broken. And then he sleeps forty-eight hours and is
4183 CXLI      |            arrive from Paris tired and sleepy and our follies will not
4184 Introd    |            true working-man, who, with sleeves turned up, in the sweat
4185 CCLXXII   |                champagne frappe, three slices of roast beef, a truffle
4186 LIX       |               wretches should make the slightest objection to it; Maurice
4187 CCXLIII   |               with her shawl which she slips up and down over her fat
4188 Introd    |                she seems to think, the sluggish virtue of base souls, who,
4189 CLXXX     |           Chatre. Nohant is ravaged by smallpox with complications, horrible.
4190 XCIII     |                is late and my eyes are smarting.~So, thank you, very kindly,
4191 CCLXII    |                froth at the mouth, and smash when you can. If I had been
4192 XXVI      |               the word; “we would have smiled for her.” That would have
4193 LXXXVI    |              sure that now Louis Blanc smiles at his dream. One should
4194 Introd    |              sewing-basket to reappear smoking black cigars in the Latin
4195 Introd    |               mediocrity and bourgeois smugness under a Napoleon who had
4196 CCXXVIII  |     appropriate little gem, I lack the snap and vivacity.~Hoping to
4197 C         |               we, since he was able to snatch you from your ink-well.
4198 CCLXXXI   |                am not like you, always soaring above the miseries of this
4199 CCI       |              an industrial enterprise (Societe anonyme), each holder votes
4200 LXXXVI    |               of the old Sophists whom Socrates made fun of.~I am trusting
4201 LXXIV     |          everything, lying down on the sofa twenty times a day, getting
4202 Introd    |                thinkers hard-shell and soft-shell,—took the position of Flaubert,
4203 XLV       |                now. I am feminized and softened by wear, as others get harder,
4204 CCLX      |            proclaimed him Emperor. His sojourn in Paris has had, on the
4205 CVI       |         Maurice too impressionable and Solange too much the opposite, and
4206 CCCIX     |             stuck on the earth as with soles of lead; everything disturbs
4207 XXXVI     |             Empire by whom I have been solicited up to an advanced age so
4208 CXCVII    |               do not let us attempt to solve the problem of humanity,
4209 CLXXXVIII |               were of the tradition of Sophie Arnould, like Lagier, roused
4210 LXXXVI    |                one like one of the old Sophists whom Socrates made fun of.~
4211 XVI       |          pockets under the arms, their sottish air, half drunkard, half
4212 XLVI      |            that is, since I have not a sou in the world. I live by
4213 CLXXXIX   |            philosophical, and the good Soulie who charged me to give you
4214 LXXIV     |               Turk, the only remaining sovereign. It is true that he is a
4215 CXCII     |           dangerous enthusiasms, I had sowed grass and flowers that grew
4216 LXXXV     |              for the Sabbath, the last spark of poetic fire has been
4217 CCV       |             drink you a toast and many speaches [sic].~G. Sand~
4218 LVII      |             finally consented to see a specialist and to be seriously treated.
4219 Introd    |                 brings forward his own specific of a quite different nature: “
4220 LXXXVI    |                understand him. He is a specimen of perpetual antithesis,
4221 CLXXXIII  |             can support itself only by speculating on that passion. Wholesale
4222 CCXLV     |              be when one has destroyed speculation, till then, no! And then
4223 XCIV      |            five or six speak well. One spends hours over the exits and
4224 CI        |               had at the same time the spire of Strasbourg, the colonnade
4225 Introd    |         diminish her power to put up a spirited defence before the really
4226 XXXIII    |         November, 1866~One need not be spiritualist nor materialist, you say,
4227 CCXXXVII  |             bored me to death with her spiritualistic discourses and her pretensions
4228 XLIV      |                subject. He said that I SPIRITUALIZED myself in a disquieting
4229 CCIX      |              these louts would be less spiteful and less bold. You have
4230 CCLXX     |            profound) melancholy. While spitting and coughing beside my fire,
4231 Introd    |             regeneration; he vents his splenetic contempt for the mob. Through
4232 CCLX      |                 That wretched creature spoils my sunlight and deprives
4233 XXIV      |               him for his goodness and spontaneity. Less occupied with affairs
4234 Introd    |            imparting, namely, joy, the spontaneous joyousness of her own nature.
4235 XX        |            Agricultural Fairs, talking Sport, acting indifferent, being
4236 CLXII     |               mood continues not to be sportive. I am still given up to
4237 XVIII     |                 Everything shines with spotlessness at your house, so one is
4238 CXXXVII   |                the fever and a sort of sprain for two days. But we must
4239 L         |             this moment he is having a spree with veal and wine in honor
4240 LVIII     |              la Prudhomme. That hatred springs from something very profound
4241 CLV       |                will be reborn with the springtime. Today we have rain which
4242 CCCI      |             have a school! A priori, I spurn them, every one. The people
4243 CCXXXVI   |            write for ignoramuses. They spurned me because I wanted to write
4244 CXCV      |        identical. Never mind! They are squabbling about that, they are shouting,
4245 XXXVI     |             man of light character who squandered my wax cabinet wherein were
4246 CCLXI     |                was left in peace. I am square with them now that I am
4247 XXXII     |                in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so
4248 CXCI      |              is perhaps a guarantee of stability. It will be the first time
4249 CXLI      |               be uncomfortable in that stage-coach which makes the run, and
4250 CXCII     |            keep my eyes pure from that stain. Ah! my friend, what years
4251 CCCXVI    |                for me, as I did on the stairway at Nohant, and your little
4252 CXCVII    |                names which have become standards, these personalities which
4253 XXXII     |           friend of twenty-five years’ standing), of Gavarni, and then all
4254 CCCVIII   |               no longer knows where he stands.~But how difficult it is
4255 CVI       |              she stops; her great eyes stare, she says: MY FATHER? another
4256 CXCVII    |             tense hands, a fold of the starry mantle of the future, and
4257 CCLXXX    |           criticised. Criticism always starts from a personal point of
4258 CCXLVII   |          artist has no income, he must starve! They think that the writer,
4259 CLXXIX    |                Paris will end by being starved, and no one is taking her
4260 CLXXII    |               men passed their life in starving. The same prospect is on
4261 CCCII     |               honor of having done our stated task, it is our duty; for
4262 LXXXV     |               even dare to advance the statement that together with the respect
4263 CCLX      |              two hours now an imbecile stationed on the island in front of
4264 Introd    |          resolutely applying it to the status of women. We cannot follow
4265 CCLXXXIV  |               of salvage, even for the staunchest, seems chimerical. You need
4266 CLXX      |             the destroyed bridges, the staved-in tunnels, all this human
4267 CLXXXV    |               forget France.~My mother stays here with her grandchild,
4268 Introd    |         ourselves what sort of mind is steadily attracted to the painting
4269 XXXI      |             not a great river with its steam whistles and infernal chain;
4270 LXXXV     |                I hear the chain of the steam-boats, I think of you, and the
4271 XL        |           modern French bourgeois is a stench in my nostrils! And then
4272 Introd    |             Alfred de Musset, Merimee, Stendhal, and Sainte-Beuve. To signalize
4273 LXXIII    |            more abject dabster, a more stercoraceous bourgeois be found! No,
4274 XLVII     |              the Holy Virgin.~But what sternness for the father Beuve who
4275 LXXIV     |            with you, if you were not a stick-in-the-mud, who won’t let yourself
4276 CCLXXXIV  |            like Thomas Diafoirus, I am stiffening myself against the difficulties
4277 XXXIII    |             Catholic spiritualism that stifles him. But the question by
4278 CCXLVI    |               angers, there is a great stimulant which rightly raises us
4279 CXXXIII   |                have the strength to be stimulated by what discourages others.
4280 CCLXXXVII |              enthusiasm: as one does a stint, and perhaps it is the work
4281 CCXVII    |                diligence? What are the stipulations and what is the compensation?~
4282 LXXIV     |             also, the family, all that stirs the emotions, that combats
4283 LXI       |      inheritance. His agreeable father stole about three hundred thousand
4284 CI        |                are what cure me of the stomach-ache. And so on. A man who has
4285 Introd    |              carob tree; a lion’s head stood up above the foliage.~“Running
4286 CCLVI     |            during the last three days, Stoppfel! another bitter narcotic!
4287 CVI       |             plays and laughs, then she stops; her great eyes stare, she
4288 LXII      |               rough disillusionment in store for it, and one will lose
4289 CXLIV     |               hinders him.—He must get straightened out in his different lines
4290 CLXXVII   |          Prussians from day to day. We strain our ears, thinking we can
4291 CCXVI     |                my time, considering my straitened purse, is all counted; but
4292 LX        |              only in these great boats stranded on the sand, when the storms
4293 CCXVIII   |               think that he is getting strangely old. He must be very ill,
4294 CXL       |                There are no ladies, no strangers. In short you will make
4295 CLXXXV    |                and all liberty will be strangled.~What can one say of the
4296 XLII      |                December; his trunk was strapped; your first letter was awaiting
4297 XXXIV     |               eclecticism and when one strayed FROM LADIES it was from
4298 CCXC      |          lovely weather? Nohant is now STREAMING with flowers, from the tips
4299 XXI       |              sort to be afraid of; our streams are very wicked, but we
4300 CCLVII    |          correction is made and I have strengthened the massacre at Alexandria
4301 LVI       |               weakens me morally while strengthening me physically; and I fall
4302 XXXIII    |               is to know if abstinence strengthens us or if it exalts us too
4303 CCLXVIII  |             conceived in the spirit of strict unpartisanship, has now
4304 XLVIII    |                loving, still loved, at strife with no one, not discontent
4305 LVII      |              the bourgeois) during the strike of the tailors. One would
4306 XXXIII    |                blow a little over your strings. I think that you take more
4307 CCCI      |         certain expressions and master strokes, such as “the shade was
4308 Introd    |        epilepsy; a Viking countenance, strong-featured with leonine moustaches;
4309 CXCIX     |             who, on the whole, are the strongest. Enlighten the bourgeois
4310 CCXLIII   |         becoming rich. She becomes too strongminded, too intelligent! I don’
4311 CCXC      |             for it is cool, and we are struggling with a drought that has
4312 Introd    |          Bouvard and Pecuchet, he dies stubbornly fortifying his position.
4313 CCXLV     |            things, thanks to the inept stubbornness of the Right. The good Normans,
4314 Introd    |              exactly like a first-year student.” In the freedom of this
4315 Introd    |             pigment, a resource of the studio, he shudders to find Paris
4316 Introd    |            frequented the theatres and studios; travelled in Corsica, the
4317 CCXXXVI   |                 the Odeon and all that stuff you are busy about. I love
4318 CLXXXVII  |              that is to say, that I am stunned, that I watch the spring,
4319 LXVII     |              Limes where I had quite a STUNNING view of the sea. I walked
4320 XX        |                which is beginning, the stupefaction of a newly commenced existence.
4321 CCXX      |               great men are helping to stupefy me, and when I leave them
4322 LXIX      |                more he is content, the stupider he is,—I did not dare to.
4323 XLIX      |                order to endure all the stupidities that I hear! You can not
4324 CXXI      |               all Buddhists. That is a stylish problem to work at, and
4325 XXVI      |             was said to me by a former sub-prefect: “Ah! if we had known that
4326 XLIV      |             upset and nervous when you subdue it too much. When I was
4327 Introd    |      particularly striking because the subject-matters are superficially so unlike.
4328 CV        |           recognition, that is to say, submission that she exacts, depends
4329 CLXXXIV   |              as under the Restoration, submitting to everything and only asking
4330 CXCVII    |             army were going perhaps to subscribe to an inevitable peace that
4331 CCX       |            illustrious people who have subscribed to the monument for Bouilhet.
4332 Introd    |               works, there is a marked subsidence of her personal emotion,
4333 Introd    |               the tumult in his senses subsides, he even ventures to offer
4334 CCXXV     |                We are like fossils who subsist astray in a new world.~
4335 XXXVI     |                a place in the railroad substation to have charge of the cabinets
4336 Introd    |     civilization. In religion, we have substituted for Justice the doctrine
4337 CXCIV     |               in a state of agony. The subtitle of my book could be The
4338 XLIV      |            mass of distinctions and of subtle reasons with which society
4339 CCCV      |            form and the matter are two subtleties, two entities, neither of
4340 Introd    |           chaos of existence—it is his subtly critical condemnation of
4341 XX        |            then a Greek rhetorician in Subura where I was devoured by
4342 CXCVI     |             late.~I think that without subvention, the Odeon will be in no
4343 XCIV      |              quiet at Nohant. If Cadio succeeds, it will be a little DOT
4344 CCLXVIII  |              for several days. But his successor Cormon is full of zeal.
4345 LXXIV     |             she gets tender, she makes succulent dainties TO SURPRISE US
4346 CCCX      |               in a drawer so as not to succumb to the temptation. As my
4347 CLXXII    |            Great united works like the Suez Canal are, perhaps, under
4348 XLVI      |           developed, but that does not suffice to make us live, and does
4349 XLVIII    |                 certainly! but he is a sugar loaf. Brain on a lofty scale,
4350 PrefNote  |         undertaken in consequence of a suggestion by Professor Stuart P. Sherman.
4351 CCXII     |                he gave me two or three suggestions of exquisite detail for
4352 XLIV      |           invents, than with those one suggests to her. I think that she
4353 CLXV      |              Hauterive, isn’t it? This suicide of lovers to escape misery
4354 CCLVII    |                toe the mark to tell it suitably.~
4355 LXXIV     |            admitted; the plays are not suited to her age. As for me, I
4356 CCLXXXVIII|                an athletic life.~Don’t sulk then about the very wise
4357 LXXIV     |            ashamed and despairing, and sulks all the evening.~
4358 CCI       |           Legende des siecles, where a sultan is saved because he had
4359 CCXI      |               too. Put me down for the sum you would like and tell
4360 CXIII     |           right eye, and who calls the sumachs of the garden, the schumakre.~
4361 CCCXVIII  |              the Bourgeois affords me! Summed up at present by the large
4362 CCLXXXVI  |             working, death must not be summoned before the hour when exhaustion
4363 CXLIV     |                give this advice.”~That sums up what we said. It is not
4364 LXVII     |             old guitar and should have sung a ballad under your mother’
4365 Introd    |                spun it over. The sheet sunk in from her breast to her
4366 Introd    |     comprehending sympathy, fortitude, sunny resignation, and a goodness
4367 XVI       |           except a few downpours, fine sunshine in Brittany? A horrible
4368 CCLXXII   |          legitimists.~My actors played superbly, Saint-Germain among others;
4369 XVII      |              little. What deceives the superficial observer is the lack of
4370 Introd    |                the subject-matters are superficially so unlike. But take any
4371 CCLXIV    |      preoccupations. The archeology is superfluous. It belongs to another kind
4372 CXCVII    |              those who claim to be our superiors by divine right. On account
4373 CCLXIX    |               I are well, little girls superlatively so. Aurore learns everything
4374 XCI       |                who have no need of the supernatural, are rare. Philosophy will
4375 CCVII     |            third performance I led the supernumeraries.~Throughout the rehearsals
4376 Introd    |              base souls, who, in their superstitious servitude to force, hasten
4377 LXXIV     |            substitute for one of those suppers of ours which I too regret,
4378 CVI       |                turns, is twisted, made supple, is condensed under this
4379 Introd    |                his heart but his eyes, supplemented by the other senses. Life,
4380 Introd    |               of her middle years, was supplied mainly by Saint-Simon, Lamennais,
4381 Introd    |                 with her inexhaustible supply of it, meet; he pours out
4382 LVIII     |               Thus, THE STAKE that has supported me this winter, is the indignation
4383 XXI       |          recourse to the future, which supports courage and effaces all
4384 CCXXIX    |               and converse. I would be supposed to have gone away.~A word
4385 CLXXXV    |              of William: requisitions, suppressions of newspapers, executions
4386 CCCII     |               rest eternal. You are no surer than another of this compensation.
4387 XVI       |             but how beautiful the high surf! and since the botany of
4388 Introd    |              it.~The son of an eminent surgeon of Rouen, Gustave Flaubert
4389 CVII      |                to his eyes. He did his surgical operations none the less
4390 CCXC      |               are much nicer, the more surly you are, I know that you
4391 CXCIV     |                eighteen citizens! That surpasses the end of l’Education sentimentale
4392 VI        |            false Goulard killed him by surpassing him in the real and the
4393 LXXXVI    |                excursions in some very surprising wild places. The little
4394 CCLX      |               which you would not have suspected, and the clerical gentlemen
4395 CCLXXXIII |           expired very quietly without suspecting it and without suffering.
4396 LXXIV     |                which will force you to suspend your work and let it grow
4397 Introd    |              Flaubert—perhaps a little suspiciously at first, yet resolved from
4398 XXXIV     |            such vows and we loved! and swaggeringly. But all participated in
4399 CCLIV     |              with it.~Do come with the swallows and bring Saint-Antoine.
4400 Introd    |                his eyes to scatter the swarming gnats.”~And now take any
4401 LIX       |            does Maurice. Aurore is the sweetest and the most ridiculous
4402 XLII      |              that somewhere there is a sweetheart who comes and goes, or who
4403 CCCII     |      personality. One wants to sink or swim with him. If he leaves you
4404 CCLXXVI   |             congestion on the top of a Swiss mountain, obeying the advice
4405 CCCI      |                horror. Phrases make me swoon with pleasure which seem
4406 CCLXXXII  |   Monday-morning idiots have just been swooning away about M. Scribe’s Une
4407 CCCXIII   |              it instantly, at one fell swoop, only stopping to fill my
4408 XLIX      |              inane conversation that I swore to myself never to put foot
4409 LXXXIX    |             you in my lost letter that Sylvanie [Footnote: Madame Arnould-Plessy.]
4410 VII       |                This refers to Monsieur Sylveitre, which had just appeared.]
4411 LI        |               spring time.~The anemone Sylvia which I brought from the
4412 CXXII     |               Down with words! No more symbols nor fetiches! The great
4413 Introd    |            relations with Flaubert are sympathetically touched upon in Pater’s
4414 CCLXXVI   |      accumulating! It is a concerto, a symphony in which each one is intent
4415 CLXXXVIII |        Troppman have been very evident symptoms of it. That folly is the
4416 XLII      |               My brain only works from synthesis to analysis, and formerly
4417 XX        |           eaten too many grapes on the Syrian shores, I have been a pirate,
4418 XVI       |              too much. Monsieur craves Syrias, deserts, dead seas, dangers
4419 CCLXXXIV  |               me from Boileau and from Tacitus. That was like a gift to
4420 CIV       |                They are on a different tack from before, but nothing
4421 CLXXVI    |               take lessons in military tactics.~The most deplorable thing
4422 LVII      |               during the strike of the tailors. One would have said that
4423 Introd    |               the physique of a giant, tainted with epilepsy; a Viking
4424 CXLIV     |                from THE OTHERS:~“He is taller and larger than the average
4425 XIX       |              able to say, as did M. de Talleyrand to Louis Philippe: “It is
4426 LX        |         discovered in the outskirts of Tamaris, among the furthest rocks,
4427 LXXII     |               which more than once has TAPPED at your study door to say
4428 LXXII     |             have said: “It is a spirit tapping let him go to the devil!”~
4429 LXXXI     |              at last, here are Depaul, Tarnier, Gueniaux and Nelaton who
4430 CCCVIII   |             him to send you Risler and Tartarin. I am sure in advance that
4431 CCXCVI    |               we must go on and do our tasks without saddening those
4432 CCLXVI    |           gulped a volume by Garcin de Tassy on Hindustani literature,
4433 XLIV      |              Maurice and Lina who have tasted your cheese, send you their
4434 Introd    |          George Sand. He inherited the tastes and imagination of the great
4435 CLIV      |               wrote her on a method of teaching.~
4436 CCCI      |              regard as very secondary, technical detail, local exactness,
4437 XXXII     |                Francis Laur.] If he is temperate at twenty years old, he
4438 CCLXXXV   |           quiet you: I have not enough tempest in me now for you to understand
4439 Introd    |                Platonic, fraternal, or tempestuously passionate with perhaps
4440 XCVII     |               churches, but they raise temples, etc.~I assure you that
4441 CCLXX     |           Cruchard does not please the temporal powers. Isn’t it funny,
4442 XXXV      |              But if it could certainly tempt you some day, it would be
4443 CLXIX     |               to me. He had one of the tenderest hearts, and a sincere good
4444 CLXXII    |          equilibrium? That country was tending to be hypertrophied like
4445 Introd    |               some exercise, relax the tendons of your mind, indulge a
4446 CXCVII    |             France, holds still in its tense hands, a fold of the starry
4447 Introd    |     interruption of his work, and such tension and excitability of nerves
4448 CCLXXX    |               Cantal with a servant, a tent, a lamp, and a quantity
4449 CCLXXIII  |               the better for that?~The Tentation is not doing badly. The
4450 XCVI      |               October, 1868~Here I am “ter hum” where, after having
4451 LXI       |           Nohant, and Maurice at Nerac terminating by a compromise the law-suit
4452 Introd    |            darkness at the foot of the terrace. Monsieur Bournisien from
4453 CCLXIII   |             has to fill up, he must be terribly famished. What a kind, excellent
4454 XCVII     |          justice has disappeared. What terrified me so in the history of ’
4455 CLXXVI    |           yield, they are going to (1) terrify her by the sight of cannon,
4456 CCLXII    |             But, before starting at my terrifying book, I shall make a last
4457 CLXXIII   |           distract ourselves from this terror!~Write me where you are;
4458 CLIX      |                attacks of fever, other terrors! At last our savior went
4459 CXVIII    |               1869~I saw Levy today, I tested him at first; I saw that
4460 III       |             another to dine informally tete-a-tete.~I sent your affectionate
4461 CXXXV     |        publication of books like that (textual), that I lend a hand to
4462 CXLIX     |               out, at least unless the thaw is not very bad. My play
4463 CCI       |             for men in abstaining from theft! In short, the first injustice
4464 LVIII     |         effacement, as under the great theocratic despotisms.~The Tsar of
4465 CCXLVI    |                sometimes, disturbs our theodicy. But the victory every day
4466 V         |             the last wishes of my poor Theodore. [Footnote: Letter written
4467 CCLVIII   |              are taking out the vertus theologales.~As for me, bet or no bet,
4468 Introd    |                of humanity,” a kind of theosophical socialism, is too fantastically
4469 XXI       |            opinion of the Lundi or the thesis of that day. I protested
4470 Introd    |          conceited brutes.” As the war thickens around him and the wakened
4471 CC        |                of the theatres is more THICKHEADED than ever. You would do
4472 CCI       |              the story of the penitent thief blessed because he has repented!
4473 CLXXXVIII |                quite as Jesus pardoned thieves, and they pillage the residences
4474 CCXLIII   |              is a feat. Your Madame de Thievre, with her shawl which she
4475 Introd    |               must leave Flaubert, the thinker. He never passes beyond
4476 XVII      |              of which I knew about two thirds but only fragmentarily.
4477 CCL       |                because I am hungry and thirsty to see you.~Maurice is at
4478 XCIV      |                it all impossible, with thirty-five or forty speaking actors
4479 Introd    |         letters, which he followed for thirty-four years with anguish of spirit
4480 CCLXXXIV  |               undertaken it. But, like Thomas Diafoirus, I am stiffening
4481 CLXXXII   |             this morning; what a cruel thorn it takes from my heart!
4482 Introd    |              between the method or the thoroughness with which he collected
4483           | THOU
4484 CXCVII    |               the less dear to me. The thoughtless blame of those who leave
4485 XVI       |             not be touched roughly nor thoughtlessly.~Sainte-Beuve, who loves
4486 XXXII     |           stream. With me it is a tiny thread of water. Hard labor at
4487 CXCVII    |              not have an insult, not a threat for the enemy, it conceives
4488 Introd    |           sociological investigator is three-fourths of a novelist. The rest
4489 CCCIV     |                quarter at most, and if three-quarters are beautiful, one overlooks
4490 CCXX      |              eagerness upon my old and thrice great Spinoza. What genius,
4491 XCIII     |              is plain, it gets you and thrills you. How many people must
4492 LXXI      |              his heart beat with eager throbs, Young Alfred dried up with
4493 CCLXXXV   |             think that he has kept his thunderbolts and that he has all the
4494           | thy
4495 CCLXXI    |              nothing, and that it is a ticket in a lottery. It is agreeable
4496 CCLXXII   |               is the scandal about the tickets. Observe that I had twelve
4497 CCLXXIX   |               become drivel! They have tickled my ears with the return
4498 Introd    |              encounter from which both tiger-moths escaped with singed wings;
4499 XXXVI     |          memories in the annals of the tight-rope and coregrafie balancer
4500 Introd    |             wings in flight; under the tightly drawn skin, his ribs severally
4501 CXXI      |  ecclesiastical memoirs of the Nain de Tillemont. I hope to succeed in finding
4502 CLXV      |           morality, of utility, of its timeliness, etc. It seems to me that
4503 Introd    |            been more wholesome or more timely. And with what pictures
4504 CXCVII    |               know sweet, generous and timorous souls, who in this terrible