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    Love Letters from Famous People
    Love Letters from Famous People
    Love Letters from Famous People
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    Love Letters from Famous People

    By Charles, C.H.

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    "Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day" is a collection of love letters written between 1688 and 1910. Letters within this book were featured in the 2008 feature film "Sex and the City". This charming volume includes a short treatise on love letter writing by the editor as well as love letters by notable historical figures including Beethoven, Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Burns, Gustave Flaubert, Lord Bayron, Victor Hugo, Franz Kafka, Vincent Van Gogh and many others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAegitas
    Release dateJun 15, 2015
    ISBN9785000647493
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      Love Letters from Famous People - Charles, C.H.

      Abigail Adams to John Adams

      Dec 23, 1782

      ...should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccupied.

      I look back to the early days of our acquaintance and friendship as to the days of love and innocence, and, with an indescribable pleasure, I have seen near a score of years roll over our heads with an affection heightened and improved by time, nor have the dreary years of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my heart.

      Beethoven Love Letters to His Immortal Beloved

      Letter 1

      July 6, in the morning

      My angel, my all, my very self -

      Only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours) - Not till tomorrow will my lodgings be definitely determined upon - what a useless waste of time -

      Why this deep sorrow when necessity speaks - can our love endure except through sacrifices, through not demanding everything from one another; can you change the fact that you are not wholly mine, I not wholly thine -

      Oh God, look out into the beauties of nature and comfort your heart with that which must be -

      Love demands everything and that very justly - thus it is to me with you, and to you with me.

      But you forget so easily that I must live for me and for you; if we were wholly united you would feel the pain of it as little as I -

      My journey was a fearful one; I did not reach here until 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Lacking horses the post-coach chose another route, but what an awful one; at the stage before the last I was warned not to travel at night; I was made fearful of a forest, but that only made me the more eager - and I was wrong.

      The coach must needs break down on the wretched road, a bottomless mud road.

      Without such postilions as I had with me I should have remained stuck in the road.

      Esterhazy, traveling the usual road here, had the same fate with eight horses that I had with four - Yet I got some pleasure out of it, as I always do when I successfully overcome difficulties -

      Now a quick change to things internal from things external.

      We shall surely see each other soon; moreover, today I cannot share with you the thoughts I have had during these last few days touching my own life -

      If our hearts were always close together, I would have none of these.

      My heart is full of so many things to say to you - ah - there are moments when I feel that speech amounts to nothing at all -

      Cheer up - remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours.

      The gods must send us the rest, what for us must and shall be -

      Your faithful LUDWIG

      Letter 2

      Evening, Monday, July 6

      You are suffering, my dearest creature - only now have I learned that letters must be posted very early in the morning on Mondays to Thursdays - the only days on which the mail-coach goes from here to K. -

      You are suffering -

      Ah, wherever I am, there you are also - I will arrange it with you and me that I can live with you.

      What a life!!! thus!!! without you - pursued by the goodness of mankind hither and thither - which I as little want to deserve as I deserve it -

      Humility of man towards man - it pains me - and when I consider myself in relation to the universe, what am I and what is He - whom we call the greatest - and yet - herein lies the divine in man -

      I weep when I reflect that you will probably not receive the first report from me until Saturday -

      Much as you love me - I love you more -

      But do not ever conceal yourself from me - good night -

      As I am taking the baths I must go to bed -

      Oh God - so near! so far!

      Is not our love truly a heavenly structure,

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