Letter Quotes
I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. ...
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
Show MoreI made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.
The wind swept the snow aside, ever faster and thicker, as if it were trying to catch up with someth...
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Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and...
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I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the s...
Show MoreIn my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...
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So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea th...
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I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebaske...
Show MoreI am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...
Show MoreI am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has c...
Show MoreIt is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil...
Show MoreI have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the ...
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He read the letter again, but could not take in any more meaning than he had done the first time and...
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I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transm...
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I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possibl...
Show MoreMy ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes c...
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Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I ...
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I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could...
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Darling,You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. I do not know why I am wri...
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He went farther; agonised by the reflection, at the moment when it passed by him, so near and yet so...
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I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel...
Show MoreYou're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ev...
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And so this letter endswith no sadness:my feet are firm upon the earth,my hand writes this letter on...
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Not much to say except to warn you not to get too serious about all this, if you want to become a wr...
Show MoreYou frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided out...
Show MoreScience and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial expla...
Show MoreIn a man's letters his soul lies naked.
Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.