January 17.
... just as a young poet looks for a subject for a tragedy...
January 22.
Gourd: engourdir, engourdi, dégourdir, dégourdi.
It is dissolution that attacks everything old.
January 24.
Scintillation (that is) light in sudden flashes.
January 25.
I. Small gifts keep friendship alive: this proverb is a lesson. Its-importance.
II. The salons have ruined morals. The truth of this assertion.
III. It is money that makes you miserly. Why, how, etc.
... that take place at our surface and transmits movement to us as air transmits light.
... it glows and does not burst into flame.
When one expresses what one thinks, a kind of pleasant secretion takes place, and when one thinks what one should, nourishment takes place. Etc.
... to spread apart—and—to tear oneself limb from limb.
Let it be quoted without being approved, but also without being blamed.
Ibid. in the evening.
Light. It is a fire that does not burn.
January 26.
— do not know how to dream.
... they spoil beauty.
A touch put forward and outside us.—An inward touch.
Note. There is such cohesion among all the words that make up such sentences that to break them one must etc.