Love Letters Of Great Men - Vol. 1

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Thanks to every bookish bestie in the book world, it has allowed me to spread my joy of reading to people worldwide! When two souls, who have sought each other for however long in the throng, have finally found each other… a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are… begins on earth and continues forever in heaven. Not this whole "WAH WAH ME ME ME, LOVE ME, OR ELSE I'LL JUST POSITIVELY KILL MYSELF, DON'T EVEN LOOK AT ANOTHER MAN" bullshit.

Taken together, these Love Letters of Great Men show that perhaps men haven’t changed so very much over the last 2,000 years; passion, jealousy, hope and longing are all represented here – as is the simple pleasure of sending a letter to, and receiving one from, the person you love most. From about 1822 to 1848, Liszt lived in Paris, where he came under the influence of Niccolo Paganini. I would recommend taking a look at Napoleon's (who berates and chides before asking for mercy), Daniel Webster's (who ends up writing an ode to a hat, all with a substantial personification included), Keats' (for the universal line "I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel"), Wilde's (the immortal romantic stylist writing in aphorisms even when writing prose: "be happy to have filled with an immortal love the soul of man who now weeps in hell, and yet carries heaven in his heart.Wilde was cross examined extensively about a “love that dare not speak its name” and eventually convicted of gross indecency with a sentence of two years in prison. A short introduction is given to each letter which was concise and welcome background setting the scene. Beethoven - Love Letters of Great Men July 6, in the morning my angel, my all, my very self - only a few words today and at that with pencil (with yours) 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.

We understand that our lives don't revolve around each other, and expecting them to would be harmful.On the occasions when they have been obliged to be apart, Andy’s conversation is so likely to center on Katharine that she becomes all the more present for being absent. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As the Introduction to the collection itself says, a vast number of these letters would not merit a glance if received today.

Cynical as some of us like to claim we are, perhaps there's always a little part of us that yearns for old-fashioned romance. While separated from his true love in his dying days, he wrote: "You could not step or move an eyelid but it would shoot to my heart--I am greedy of you--Do not think of any thing but me. You may have altered - if you have not - if you still behave in dancing rooms and other societies as I have seen you - I do not want to live - if you have done so I wish this coming night may be my last. Even when I am not thinking of you, I perceive your tenderness and a tenderer nature stealing upon me. At 14, he quit school and became an "oyster pirate," robbing oyster beds to sell his booty to the bars and restaurants in Oakland.Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, a chap 16 years his junior, first crossed paths in the summer of 1891 and had an other-worldly love that blossomed with every passing day. I am not making myself clear I am afraid, but on the occasions when White has spoken privately with me about this he was in no condition to make himself clear either and I am just doing the best I can in my own way). e. when a wife cheated on her husband, it was an "affair," but when a man cheated with a married woman it was "love"), but otherwise I found them interesting, and Doyle's neutrality didn't seem to overly-romanticize the more unhealthy relationships. Though I expected the letters in this collection to be love letters, I must admit that I was overwhelmed with how gag-worthy many of them were.