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Correspondence
“
te pido perdón por mi torpeza y te beso en ambos ojos, que quizás han llorado por mi culpa
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― Cartas a Louise Colet
― Cartas a Louise Colet
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I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they died, I wrote a book; why not a letter? A mysterious but truthful answer is that while I can gear myself up to do a novel, letters, real-life communications, are too much for me. I used to rattle them off easily enough; why is the challenge of writing to friends and acquaintances too much for me now? Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not
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