:56:00
We poor women don't have such
distractions.
:56:03
They're sad indeed, if they bring
no joy.
:56:07
Can it ever be found?
:56:09
Yes.
:56:11
You find it one day.
:56:14
You find it when you thought it
lost.
:56:16
Then new horizons open.
:56:18
You confide everything in the
other...
:56:21
sacrifice everything.
:56:23
There's no talk, just intuition.
:56:26
It's the person you've dreamt of.
:56:29
However, you don't dare believe it.
:56:32
You're dazzled as if coming from
shadows...
:56:35
into the light.
:56:40
Let's say it plainly...
:56:42
no place is more patriotic than
the countryside...
:56:46
more devoted to the civil cause...
:56:48
in a word, more intelligent.
:56:50
I don't mean, gentlemen...
:56:53
that superficial intelligence...
:56:55
that vainly adorns the idle mind...
:56:59
but that deep and moderate
intelligence...
:57:04
that comes from respecting the
law and observing one's duty.
:57:07
Ah, time and again, duty!
:57:10
Those words stultify me.
:57:12
Duty is to know what is great, and
cherish what is beautiful...
:57:16
and not to accept society's rules...
:57:17
with their inherent ignominy.
:57:21
But...
:57:23
Passion is the one good thing on
earth.
:57:26
It gives us heroism, enthusiasm...
:57:28
music, poetry, art, everything!
:57:32
But one must follow opinion and
its morality.
:57:38
There are two moralities.
:57:40
The petty, conventional one...
:57:43
ever-changing and loud-mouthed.
:57:45
The other, the eternal one is
around us and above us...
:57:49
like the landscape and the clear
blue sky.
:57:53
Continue!
:57:55
Persevere!
:57:57
Doesn't this conspiracy of Society
disgust you?