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Peter Abelard

The love letters of Abelard and Heloise

  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    I hope you will be willing, when you have finished this mortal life, to be buried near me.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    'Tis a thousand times more easy to renounce the world than love. I hate this deceitful, faithless world; I think no more of it; but my wandering heart still eternally seeks you, and is filled with anguish at having lost you, in spite of all the powers of my reason.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    A love so like to hatred should provoke the utmost contempt and anger.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    I did not persuade you to religion out of any regard to your happiness, but condemned you to it like an enemy who destroys what he cannot carry off.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    I was resolved to follow you everywhere. The shadow of myself would always have pursued your steps and continually have occasioned either your confusion or your fear, which would have been a sensible gratification to me.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    yet, triumphant as I was, I yielded you up to God with an unwilling heart. I still kept my gift as much as was possible, and only parted with it in order to keep it out of the power of other men.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    I know not how it happens, there is always a pleasure in weeping for a beloved object.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    Come, if you think fit, and in your holy habit thrust yourself between my God and me, and be a wall of separation. Come and force from me those sighs and thoughts and vows I owe to Him alone. Assist the evil spirits and be the instrument of their malice. What cannot you induce a heart to do whose weakness you so perfectly know?
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    And yet for such shadows of enjoyments which at first appeared to us are we so weak our whole lives that we cannot now help writing to each other, covered as we are with sackcloth and ashes.
  • missninahas quoted2 years ago
    Why use your eloquence to reproach me for my flight and for my silence?
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