It is a long time since I have read with such a healthy appetite and at the same time with so much gluttony. Each new idea drawn from my reading, as soon as it enters my head, links up with something; it seems to me I was waiting for it; its place was ready.
I recall certain readings in my childhood, so voluptuously penetrating that I felt the sentence almost physically enter my heart. This evening I again felt that marvelous sensation.
Newly acquired. The Journals of André Gide. 4 vols. Translated from the French with an Introduction and Notes by Justin O’Brien. New York: Knopf, 1947. p. 170.
