If you think Audiffret amuses me, you are mistaken.
It is not yet noon and I have already had a meeting with the marble-worker who came to inspect my bathroom and is already at work on a shell of the...
I could not even write yesterday — which is proof of a most extraordinary state, since I have grown accustomed to living and thinking through...
I have just been laughing like a madwoman. It is two in the morning; I was finishing my supper when the blue five-branched candelabra tips, falls,...
I went up to Maman's and stayed with her and my aunt; a great silence fell, which all three of us were burning to break, all three thinking of the...
Just now, coming out of my dressing room, I frightened myself superstitiously. I saw beside me a woman dressed in a long white robe, holding a light...
When Jesus healed the lunatic, his disciples asked him why those who had tried had been unable to cure him. And Jesus replied:
Today is the first truly hot day.
The heat is unbearable.
This insult weighs on me. This man's conduct is vile; his character is contemptible.
For the moment, I have just come in; I spent an hour with my aunt, Dina, and Walitsky talking of Rome, of cardinals. Dina tells me of the Mass she...
I do well to write my impressions on the spot, for rereading my time in Rome and my turmoil during Pietro's disappearance, I am quite astonished to...
We were there discussing Dina's idea with Collignon when that idiot Marie, without warning anyone, admitted Laurenti by telling him that the young...
But this brief well-being towards evening gave way to a sweet torpor, an enchanted languor, for the sea was calm, smooth as a mirror — blue sky, pure...
Again towards evening I was quite ready to write verse — just as poor as yesterday's. I could make good verse if I were not in such a hurry. But I...
I keep saying that I am ill, and so I am. So much grief cannot but crush. I feel nothing but a deep dejection, a great sadness of heart and mind...
After dinner Bihovetz proposed going out, and taking me on his right arm and Collignon on his left, he led us along the promenade. I spoke with my...
I have taken a new lady's maid. A tall, handsome brunette, very good manners — about thirty. I like her first because she is agreeable, because her...
— You went to bed very late last night, said Maman.
This morning I had my first lesson with Cresci. Always the same thing — that enormous voice which I lose ten times a year and always recover more...
We went out to see the processions; in the Saint-Étienne procession was Chocolat, carrying the biggest candle possible. We see Hasford at the band,...
I finished Collignon's portrait; during this last sitting Bihovetz arrived with all my family. It appears that the announcement card, before I could...
At dinner a sort of council was held to judge which men are guilty and which are not. My aunt would not hear of the moral... innocence of Pietro and...
Each time I believe it is over and I shall no longer think of it — and I always think of it, this cursed scandal!
Leone says he loves Italy more than Irène: "Italy before everything — before yourself." That is what my own friend used to say to me, and it would...
I was careful not to rush downstairs — I was ashamed to show so much interest, and even had I wished to hurry I could not, so moved and trembling was...
The sky, heavy with storm yesterday, has burst into rain. It is very pleasant. Ah! if only I could refresh myself with tears.
Cresci brought me the compliments of "Monsieur Émile." The other day Galula, having met Maman, told her that they all knew what a voice I had and on...
— Indeed, I said, biting my lips — he is a saintly man. — Oh! Yes! I went to a side table and taking up a photograph of the dissolute cardinal: —...
I had to go out as early as three o'clock — I took Dina with me. What luck! We met Monsieur and Madame Saetone, Gautier, and Laurenti. I love seeing...
This reading has shaken me. I must pass through St. Petersburg on my way home, but I shall try to find another route. I have no desire to choke on...
That wretched Folon having again failed to come and take measurements for the mirrors, I had to go out — and once out, I consented to hear the...
Every hour that passes is a grief to me. Time goes by... and I moulder!
A woman lives from sixteen to forty. I have already lost two years — two of the best years!
I leave tomorrow. And there is some indefinable regret at leaving Nice. All these travel preparations cast a certain chill over my resolutions. I...