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Saturday, November 12.
(In the hut.) The works of men seem to separate us from God. The thick vaults of a cavern remove our heart and our thought less far from him than ceilings and paneling do. (Ad vivum.)
November 14.
There is no style better suited to disguise. One cannot tell whether the person who uses it is skillful or ignorant. It is a parade costume, a ceremonial voice etc. “His fit of madness (says the journal) was a fit of wit.”
To write a journal in a figurative and harmonious style... A book that flees and painted leaves. Mʳˢ of taste.
November 15.
Mobility of action, but not mobility of feelings, if by mobility one means inconstancy.
November 17.
There is a common modesty. The astonishment of growth. Embarrassment is inseparable from this secret made manifest, shame from the state of undress in which we live, in a sense, through our development, exposure to censure and the expectation of judgment. Such are its causes.
November 19.
... and this past become like a nothingness in which the soul exhausts itself by sinking deeper.
November 20.
The Soul. It can lift the body.
November 23.
The tongue that writes. When one recites to oneself with the mouth closed, the tongue then makes the same movements behind the teeth, delivers the same strokes as if one were speaking. One even hears oneself then, lends oneself an ear. Only the action and service of the lips are then lacking, compared with speech.
Virtuous peoples. [They] do indeed have much enlightenment and great knowledge. They know good and evil, they distinguish them; great sense and many high maxims, excellent discernment, an exquisite choice of good means, in all things, is necessarily their lot.
November 24.
Fortunately, I never feel more than half my pains at once.
November 25.
But it matters to men to have this opinion of it.
November 28.
— He put into that of animals a fifth part of the human soul, making them capable of tears and regrets. For the dog’s fidelity...
For the soul there is only one way to escape the ills of life: to escape its pleasures and seek its own higher up.