18) Games, cards, women, races, are alluring because they have been thought out for the _blasés_. It is not for nothing that the wise teachers have forbidden them. Artificial play is corrupting. They are needed for the _blasé_, but the simple working people need the very simplest plays without preparation. 19) Only then will you produce true love, when you will resist offence, overcome offence with love, will love your enemy. 20) They desire, they are excited, they suffer only for trifles or for bad things. The good things are accomplished without excitement. It is from this that the word heart means malice. (_Serdit_, to get angry, to put into a passion, comes from _sertse_, the heart.--_Translator’s note._) _To-day Oct. 2. Y. P._ I am still ill,--I am not suffering, but I feel threatened constantly. Morally I am better--I remember God in myself more often, and death. It seems to me I have come out of the difficult place in _Resurrection_.... Kolichka went away. Sonya arrived--she is ill. I am continuing to write out from the notebooks: 1) I have made this note: Space comes from the consciousness of limits, from the consciousness of one’s own separateness; I am one, and the world is another. And in the world are similar beings with limits: 2, 3, 4, ... to infinity. These beings can find place only in space. From the consciousness of limits comes also time. I have thought this out again and can express it in this way: Separateness, the non-all-comprehensiveness of our _selves_, is expressed in recognising a part of moving matter as ourselves. The part of matter which we recognise as ourselves gives us an understanding of space; that part of motion which we recognise as ourselves gives us a conception of time. Or, in other words: We cannot imagine a part of matter in any other way than in space. To imagine a part of motion, we cannot in any other way than in time. Space comes from the impossibility of imagining two or many objects beyond time. Time comes from the impossibility of imagining two, many objects beyond space. Space is the possibility of representing to one’s self two, many objects at one and the same time. Time is the possibility of representing to one’s self two, many objects, in one and the same space (one goes out, the other enters). Divisions cannot be in one space, without time. If there were no time (motion) all objects in space would be unmoving and they would form not many objects, but one space, undivided and filled with matter. If there were no space, there could be no motion and our “self” would not be separated by anything from all the rest. My body understood by me as my “self,” and understanding all the rest, is that part of matter which moves for a definite time and occupies a definite space. (Not good, unclear, perhaps even untrue.)