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I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. ...

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Albert EinsteinDear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...

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I 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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C. S. LewisLetters of C. S. Lewis

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the s...

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In 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...

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I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...

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I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has c...

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It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil...

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I 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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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transm...

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Jack KerouacThe Portable Jack Kerouac

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possibl...

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My 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.

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John KeatsBright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could...

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John KeatsBright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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...

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You'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...

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You frequently state, and in your letter you imply, that I have developed a completely one-sided out...

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Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated. Science, for me, gives a partial expla...

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In 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.