“ Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. ”
Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides (1841). copy citation
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
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Source | Letters of Two Brides |
Topic | love immensity |
Date | 1841 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by R. S. Scott |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1941/1941-h/1941-h.htm |
Context
“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. In a single letter Henarez has outstripped volumes from Lovelace or Saint-Preux. Here is true love, no beating about the bush. Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
Here am I, shorn of all my little arts! To refuse or accept! That is the alternative boldly presented me, without the ghost of an opening for a middle course. No fencing allowed! This is no longer Paris; we are in the heart of Spain or the far East.” source
Here am I, shorn of all my little arts! To refuse or accept! That is the alternative boldly presented me, without the ghost of an opening for a middle course. No fencing allowed! This is no longer Paris; we are in the heart of Spain or the far East.” source