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June 29.
Man and woman alone on a desert island. Chastity forms this desert island around us wherever we live.
Sunday, June 18 (rue de Brennus, in Sens.)
The great charm of greenery is great heat.
That there is a reason and a prudence that come neither from prudence nor from natural reason, however upright it may be.
...for whom life is the game of merels.
In the morning, inhabited places; in the evening, solitary places.
A dream is half a reality.
Smell and sight are the most susceptible to being easily charmed. (Flowers at dessert. Illusion.)
What, in a landscape, defines and, so to speak, names an object takes away some indefiniteness, and consequently some charm.
Wednesday, June 21.
One is firm through principles, stubborn through character, or rather through temperament. The stubborn man is one whose organs, once they have taken a fold, can no longer, or cannot for a long time, take another.
Nothing does a woman as much honor as her patience, and nothing does her so little honor as her husband’s patience.
D’Alembert. Style: seems to trace geometrical figures.
June 24.
Almost all the errors of good minds are merely a displacement, a misapplication of some truth. It is through misapprehension that they err.
June 25.
Do not say the word that completes the symmetry of your sentence and squares it off when the reader inevitably thinks of it and says it to himself after one of the words that preceded it.
Symmetry. One soon tires of it, but not for long. It displeases only for a moment.