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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Beethoven - Love Letters of Great Men



If you are a regular viewer, you know that on occasion I like to share a letters with my readers.  Today's letter comes from Beethoven - Love Letters of Great Men.  I found it on Romance Class.  Parts of this letter were used in the Sex in City movie.


Beethoven - Love Letters of Great Men


Good morning, on July 7

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - I can live only wholly with you or not at all - Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits - Yes, unhappily it must be so - You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never - Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. And yet my life in V is now a wretched life - Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection? My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once - Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together - Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

ever thine
ever mine
ever ours


*Posts you may enjoy are Alice Benton's Blog Reader Appreciation and One Mother's Letter to Her Children.

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