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And indeed people of taste have their dolls, but they are men’s dolls.
Perpetual enthusiasm! in which the poet, the philosopher must remain.
October […]3.
To use reason to give ourselves passions. — Monstrosities. — No... — How.
There is not a turn of phrase in Horace, not a word, so to speak, that Virgil would have wished to use, so different are their two styles.
Sunday, October 4.
I seem to see a mouth fitted to pipes through which flows a water foreign to them. The water pours out quite cold and with a uniform, continuous speed. This is how they throw out their words, or rather how they let them pass (flow, fall). Their speech is a flux of the mouth.
October 5.
The exactness of the expression good odor of a good life, virtue that spreads its odor. Indeed, influences issue from it whose nature and course have a sort of affinity with the course and nature of perfumes.
October 6.
... like a trembling of strings that have been plucked.
... because everything unclothed is hideous. Thus the worm. The serpent’s sort of nudity.
Hollow ideas. Yes, they are hollow, and much meaning can enter them. They are hollow, but not false and not empty. (To dream empty and to dream hollow.)
October 9.
It is an opera without an orchestra, a song without accompaniment. A style is needed that is airy and does not touch the earth.
Now, when God thus withdraws into himself, the wise man, imitating his model, himself turns away from the world abandoned to its extravagance and withdraws his mind into God.
When God withdraws from the world, the wise man withdraws into God.
October 10.
If we reflect that in fact our judgments give existence to nothing when they affirm and take it from nothing when we deny...