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Aristotle and Pliny. In their styles one finds the difference between flesh and painting.
March 28.
The earth is a point in space, and space is a point in spirit. By spirit I mean here spirit as element, the fifth element of the world, the space of everything, the bond of all things, for all things are in it, live in it, move in it, die in it, are born in it. — Spirit... the world’s last girdle.
March 30.
Water and all palpable fluids seem to move over the plane that supports them through a particular principle of movement that may be called movement of adherence, of cohesion, of embrace.
There are some to whom one ought to recommend madness.
April ….
Passions and rain; feelings and dew.
April 4.
One must not lead souls to the brothel. — And: one may indeed go to the brothel, but one must lead no one there.
Note. Repentance.
Add. Black hair in the tomb.
April 6.
Faults without repentance.
April 7.
When one wants transparency, finish, smoothness, and beauty, one must polish for a long time.
April 8.
Credulity. Harder to dissuade than to persuade, and easier to deceive than to undeceive.
April 9.
Children. Let the child earn his name.
April 10.
Of ill-omened words whose augury was dreaded. Influences of these ideas.
April 11.
One must not have a mind more exacting than one’s taste, or judgment more severe than one’s conscience.