《Letter from an Unknown Woman》是一部感人至深的小说，讲述了一个未知女人对一个男人深情的爱恋。她默默地爱着他，却从未得到过回应。信中描述了她对他的思念和痴心，最终揭示了她的终极牺牲。这篇小说让人深思爱情的无常和残酷，令人感动不已。
《Letter from an Unknown Woman》读后感(一)
Unknown Woman 卑微而且炽热的爱着Mr.R，但是从始自终都只是自我陶醉和自欺自哀，很想问一句R凭啥记住你呀……茨威格的心理描写很棒，整个故事由一封信组成，竟然能够生动曲折饱满细致。Unknown Woman 的爱情是病态的，却也决绝的让人唏嘘，其实读者或多或少都能从中看到深陷在爱情悲喜剧中的自己的影子。
读一本书就像一场历练，在一本书的世界里过一次不一样的人生，或喜或悲；在一个经典的人物上体验一种不一样的价值观和人生观，或许执拗或许豁达。能够从书中感受到不一样的爱情观，也是很畅快的呀。毕竟人生只有一次。
1/9页《Letter from an Unknown Woman》读后感(二)
从一开始对她同情心疼无奈到看到中间的可怜 又觉得她可悲 以及她自己太不爱自己 甚至好生气她为什么要把自己活成这个样子 到最后的为她难过悲伤和心疼理解 文本太细腻
看到中间简直都要放弃 不明白一个人怎么可以这么卑微的爱着别人 可是 我们爱别人的时候 不都是无意识的怕自己不够优秀吗
她的卑微太够极致 悲观主义 太过极致 其实 本来是有很多方法可以解决的 像这样的暗恋 真的看到最后令人悲伤
真的希望 你可以在下一辈子爱自己 然后更勇敢的爱别人 让你的爱气势如虹
也希望你明白 有些人 他配不上你
You deserve everything
2/9页《Letter from an Unknown Woman》读后感(三)
读的是英文原版，我读完之后，才发现自己不喜欢这类描写一方强烈情感的romatic小说，虽然我本人其实很喜欢看romatic电影。虽然不喜欢romatic小说，但是必须得承认一个男性作者能够如此细腻真实得描述一个女性的心理和它的变化过程，确实相当厉害！它令我想到了我对初恋的感觉，敏感，超能想象，总是希望偶遇，即便长大了，也希望能够再见到他，让他看看自己的变化。
但是这种心理历程其实是非常隐私的，当它被曝露在大众面前的时候，因为观众无法对男主角的充满如此美好的想象，反而让人无法接受女主角如此强烈的爱意，想了想，应该就是这个原因，让我无法喜欢这类小说，也有可能纯粹是我对男主角不是那么喜欢，为女主角的付出鸣不平导致的。
3/9页《Letter from an Unknown Woman》读后感(四)
我不知道为什么对这个故事那么着迷，电影看了两遍，又把原版小说拿出来看了一遍。起初我觉得她的爱很卑微，现在我却觉得她的爱很伟大。居然能那么肯花时间和心思去观察和了解一个男人，一个浪荡不愿意负责渴望自由自私到骨子里的男人，既然知道什么是他心之所好，就知道再靠近一步便是结束，还不如假装一身轻松，拍拍衣服转身就走。
她没有尝试过让他想起她吗？有啊，以他不厌恶的方式，适可而止。每年生日的时候，她都会送他洁白的花束，这是他第一次垂青她的礼物，她怎么可能忘记，他又怎么可能记得。有啊，她努力望向他的眼睛啊，有没有熟悉的感觉？- 哦，你不用回答我也知道了。 如果明知道答案，你还会爱他吗，会啊。 她的爱是伟大的，也是残忍的，足以让一个男孩成长为一个男人。也许在她之后，他会珍惜下一个遇见的人，把她当做她，加倍奉还。可是她，终究也不是她了。
后记：在现实生活中，我对感情应该是偏理智的，会想很多。可能我是羡慕这样一种不顾一切，爱到骨子里的勇气吧。务实太久，偶尔也要务虚。
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跳出主人公视角来看是不认同陌生女人的感情观的，然而进入到独白的语境，就觉得喜欢一个人的执迷不悔每分每秒或许都正在你我身上发生。
年少时相遇的欢喜，因为单纯所以美好，也因为铭记所以永恒。而那些大孩子们，在近一百年后的飞速发展的时间里，却也用身体的病痛和精神的折磨，来印证，来书写爱情。
薄荷阅读上14天读完的，我猜原文应该是德语吧，英语我也不知道是谁翻的，文笔细腻，完全不像出自男作家的手笔。句子不难，大量运用倒装和强调句型来描述内心的活动，故事情节并不讨我喜欢，但是我仍然为之感动，也许这就是好书的能力吧，想打4.5，那就约等于4吧。
下面收录一点看书时的摘抄。
Letter from an unknown woman 1922写成
1 Cramps seized me, so cold was it in the horrible darkness; again and again I had to stand up.
But I waited, waited, waited for you, as for my fate.
The sense of cold vanished, and a rush of heat passed over me.
据说茨威格和弗洛伊德交往甚密，所以也可以解释文中大段大段的心理描写了吧？管家认出陌生女人那一段也着实够讽刺了。
5/9页《Letter from an Unknown Woman》读后感(六)
朋友推荐的一个陌生女人的来信来看，读完了中文版的小说，在kindle找到了英文版的书，还好有先看中文版的小说，小说的英文版读起来还能看的懂，
小说讲述一个女孩卑微的深爱一个男人的故事。一个13岁的女孩在新的邻居搬到自己的家对面的时候，对这个阳光的男生一见钟情。于是就开始了一段默默的暗恋，懵懂的少女最开始的暗恋只是想看到自己想见的人但是看到的时候却又害羞的不敢抬头，不幸的事情来临，妈妈改嫁了一个有钱的人，全家要搬到一个陌生的地方，就这样这个16岁的少女在继父的家乡度过的自己与世隔绝的两年，那两年她一是思念着这个男人，回忆着这个男人的所有细节。18岁时她不顾反对的只身回到了男生的城市，卑微的打着一份工，每天在楼下迫切的希望再次的看到那个男孩。有一天，男孩注意到了这个漂亮的女孩，但是这个注意有些令女孩失望，他并没有认出这个女孩是谁，但是她还是毫不犹豫的没有拒绝这个男孩的要求，缠绵了几日，男孩以外出旅游的理由跟女孩断了联系，但是男孩并没有联系女孩，但是意外且惊喜的事情是，女孩坏了男人的孩子，但是出于对男孩的了解，女孩没有选择把这件事情告诉男孩，而是选择自己默默的把男孩和自己的孩子抚养长大。孩子出生的经历，让她不愿意孩子生活在贫困的环境中去。为了孩子，她出卖了自己的身体，有了对自己和孩子很好的情人。但是一次在聚餐的时候，女孩再次遇到了这个男孩，再次被女孩的魅力所吸引，但是，男孩并没有认出她来，两人的再次邂逅和对话也伤了女孩的心。在他们的孩子因为生病要离世的时刻，女孩忍不住伤痛只有找男孩倾诉，自己也将撒手人寰。但是，直到最后这个男孩还是没有想起这个女孩是谁……
一个女孩到女人的爱，是默默的、是卑微的、是不求回报的，却也是一种极端。以现代女性去看待，或许应该有更加好的解决方案，或许她需要人的开导。爱是需要大声说出来的，所有的一切都让自己去承受并不是明智的选择，毕竟爱情并不是一个人的事情。
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这部小说久慕盛名，女主对感情卑微隐忍、对身心自虐摧残，读者无不为之扼腕叹息。作者写作的年代，女性自主地位非今日可比，加之西欧情妇文化以及受家庭、环境等个性化影响，女主在情感上表现了执拗、自戕、自卑的一面，她的爱专一、执着又绝望，有一种病态的美。
男作者茨威格对女性角色心理描写细腻敏感，仿佛水中游鱼水草轻抚过手心脚背，让人心痒也心酸，正是本文魅力所在。
作者笔下男主不乏自身映射，包括这篇小说的灵感素材也来源于作者亲身经历。有心描写这样有悖伦理的虐恋，他必定为之沉沦。这个女性人物在男性心中是理想化的，你大声说“现实中哪有这样的人！！！？”，但似乎总有些特定身份人群终究会向你展示飞蛾扑火的一面。
我深知，阅读小说不应执着于与现代相异的价值取向与人设，但若说时代局限，同时代、甚至更早期的作者笔下并不乏身处逆境却独立自强自尊的女性角色；更惶论文中“只要能得一人心，管他伤害无数人”的价值观。只想说句：“姑娘，伤人不厚道，伤己不理性。有一种自私就叫——只对一个人无私。”
个人不喜欢这样的情感，拧巴、无望，年轻时不喜欢，现在也一样。但出乎意料，在某些层面却又与作品产生了精神上的共鸣：
作者因为犹太人的身份，无法融入自己心心念念，从小长大的故乡——欧罗巴，从此三观崩塌，这种打击对于一个敏感的文人而言无疑致命。陌生女人的信写给男主，茨威格的信写给欧罗巴。
因此，如果跳脱了男欢女爱的情感，这封信其实又适用于所有“求之不得”的东西。所谓求之不得的东西，每人都难免有那么一两样罢。总会有那么一段追逐——或人、或物、或境，在某一阶段，甚或一刻，让我们深切体会到陌生女人的心情。
这心情可能如水草般久久萦绕不去，也可能如小鱼般摇摇尾巴很快游走再无踪迹
7/9页《Letter from an Unknown Woman》读后感(八)
又是一本早就该看的书，前段时间正好找到了英文版（德语这辈子是无望了），正好篇幅不长，周末又看不进去严肃的大部头，于是一气呵成迅速读完。
释卷必然唏嘘。虽然之前看过老徐（饱受诟病）的电影版，已经对这教科书般飞蛾扑火的爱情略有了解，但第一人称的倾诉似乎总有一种比冷眼旁观更直戳人心的力道。
水银泻地，力透纸背。掏心挖骨，予人寒说。
一个极端地把所有的热忱都倾注给另一个灵魂，自决又自觉地走向“不打扰”的自我毁灭。一个极端地把爱人的天赋广撒尘世、雨露均沾。片叶不沾身的同时，还偏偏带着健忘的福分。
而且，这两个极端交会所产生的那种几近撕裂的张力，还被其中一方死死压在了心底，只在她离世之后才通过一纸“陌生”的信笺递到了那个承载了她毕生之爱的情人手里。好一个伊人已逝，欲说还休；满纸荒唐言，一把辛酸泪。
放到今天的女性视角下，都云作者痴是肯定的，但不一定能解其中味。特别是在被那种极度、极端的崇拜之爱燃尽之后，还要反复呢喃：“我不怪你，我不怪你……如果让你歉疚，我死后难安。”
如果以精神分析的角度来看，“陌生女人”信中那种令人战栗的狂热，已经超出了爱情的外延。女子对情人作家贯穿始终的称呼是beloved，个人以为这个词传递的已经不只是普通爱人的亲昵，而是近乎于一种极端彻底、不计成本、孤注一掷的移情——女主人公在从压抑、封闭的童年过渡到压抑、封闭的青春期的时候，才貌双全的男作家突然带着一身名望和少年感降临，给她的世界瞬间开光。她把一种孤僻、缺爱的环境中衍生出的对一切精神美好的渴求都投射到了他这个突然的闯入者身上。“My beloved…my beloved…”，她的声声唤里，除了对爱人的渴望，还有崇拜、笃信、盲从，同时伴随着一种自我了结、予取予求的献身欲。她这样描绘对他的狂热：“Nothing existed except in so far as it related to you, you were the only point of reference in my life.”
这翻译过来，不就是“我这颗小星球，就在你手中转动”嘛。
或者用张爱玲的话来说，“她变得很低很低，低到尘埃里。但她心里是欢喜的，从尘埃里开出花来”。
一封绝笔，一曲哀歌。冰泉冷涩弦凝绝，凝绝不通声渐歇。她在弥留之际写道：“你的生活依旧美好光明，不会因此有任何改变。我的死予你毫发无损，而我亦为之宽慰。”（“Nothing in your happy, delightful life will change—I am doing you no harm with my death, and that comforts me, my beloved.”）
俨然已经分不清楚，在读完她的临终之词之后，读者心中的不平之意应该如何界定？
恐怕是共情多于同情，理解而无法消解。
胸中免不了会回荡起一个俗气的问题：值吗？
且看看读完此信的男子的反应。
“他的内心似乎有某处崩塌了，他想起了那个女人，那个看不见的女人，那个飘渺无形、却又激情奔涌的女人，隐约像远处传来的一阵乐声。”（“Something broke open inside him, and he thought of the invisible woman, incorporeal and passionate, as one might think of distant music. ”）
良心击穿，他仍然不记得你。
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..1和2搞错了，那是来自little women [lol]....
3. I will arm myself against hope and further disappointment, I will not look at him again. I
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4. I will arm myself against hope and further disappointment, I will not look at him again. I know it is true, I know my child died yesterday—so now all I have in the world is you, you who know nothing about me, you who are now amusing yourself without a care in the world, dallying with things and with people. I have only you, who never knew me, and whom I have always loved.
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5. But you shall know my secret only once I am dead, when you no longer have to answer me, when whatever is now sending hot and cold shudders through me really is the end.
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6. Do not be afraid of my words; a dead woman wants nothing any more, neither love nor pity nor comfort. I want only one thing from you: I want you to believe everything that my pain tells you here, seeking refuge with you. Believe it all, that is the only thing I ask you: no one lies in the hour of an only child’s death.
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7. it is a life that truly began only on the day I met you. Before that, there was nothing but murky confusion into which my memory never dipped again, some kind of cellar full of dusty, cobwebbed, sombre objects and people.
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8. I am sure you don’t remember anything about it, my beloved, but I—oh, I recollect every detail with passion.
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9. I beg you, do not tire of listening to me for a quarter of an hour, when I have never tired of loving you all my life.
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10. A few days later the “To Let” notice was up at the entrance of the building, and then it was taken down; the caretaker let it be known—and word quickly went around—that a single, quiet gentleman, a writer, had taken the apartment. That was when I first heard your name.
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11. I am telling you all this, beloved, all these small and rather ridiculous things, so that you will understand how you could have such power, from the first, over the shy, diffident child I was at the time.
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12. Even before you yourself came into my life, there was an aura around you redolent of riches, of something out of the ordinary, of mystery—all of us in that little suburban apartment building were waiting impatiently for you to move in (those who live narrow lives are always curious about any novelty on their doorsteps).
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13. I unconsciously sensed, again like everyone else, that you lead a double life, one side of it bright and open to the world, the other very dark, known to you alone—my thirteen-year-old self, magically attracted to you at first glance, was aware of that profound duality, the secret of your nature.
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14. You looked at me with a warm, soft, all-enveloping gaze that was like a caress, smiled at me tenderly—yes, I can put it no other way—and said in a low and almost intimate tone of
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15. That was all, beloved, but from that moment on, after sensing that soft, tender look, I was your slave.
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16. However, I did not guess that at the age of thirteen, still a child; it was as if I had been immersed in fire. I thought the tenderness was only for me, for me alone, and in that one second the woman latent in my adolescent self awoke, and she was in thrall to you for ever.
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17. It was impossible for me to utter your name; in that one single second it had become sacred to me, it was my secret.
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18. I loved you from that second on. I know that women have often said those words to you, spoilt as you are. But believe me, no one ever loved you as slavishly, with such dog-like devotion, as the creature I was then and have always remained, for there is nothing on earth like the love of a child that passes unnoticed in the dark because she has no hope: her love is so submissive, so much a servant’s love, passionate and lying in wait, in a way that the avid yet unconsciously demanding love of a grown woman can never be. Only lonely children can keep a passion entirely to themselves; others talk about their feelings in company, wear them away in intimacy with friends, they have heard and read a great deal about love, and know that it is a common fate. They play with it as if it were a toy, they show it off like boys smoking their first cigarette. But as for me, I had no one I could take into my confidence, I was not taught or warned by anyone, I was inexperienced and naive; I flung myself into my fate as if into an abyss.
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19. I brought to bear, on you, everything that would otherwise have been splintered and dispersed. To me, you were—how can I put it？ Any one comparison is too slight—you were everything to me, all that mattered. Nothing existed except in so far as it related to you, you were the only point of reference in my life.
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20. I read a thousand books until late into the night because I knew that you loved books;
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21. Even as I tell you all these things, I know that they were grotesquely extravagant and childish follies. I ought to have been ashamed of them, but I was not, for my love for you was never purer and more passionate than in those childish excesses.
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22. For hours, days I could tell you about those long-gone years of yours, unrolling the whole calendar of your life, but I do not mean to bore you or torment you. I will tell you only about the best experience of my childhood, and I ask you not to mock me because it is something so slight, for to me as a child it was infinite.
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23. I didn’t want to live happy and content away from you, I entrenched myself in a dark world of self-torment and loneliness.
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24. I stayed at home alone for hours, days, doing nothing but thinking of you again and again, always reviving my hundred little memories of you, every time I met you, every time I waited for you, staging those little incidents in my mind as if in a theatre. And that is why, because I went over every second of the past countless times, I retain such a vivid memory of my whole childhood that I feel every minute of those past years with as much heat and ardour as if they were only yesterday.
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25. To love, or even merely play at love with anyone but you was so inexplicable to me, so unimaginably strange an idea, that merely feeling tempted to indulge in it would have seemed to me a crime.
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26. There was light in your windows; my whole heart sang. Only now did the city, strange to me these days with its pointless roar of traffic, come to life, only now did I come to life again myself, knowing that I was near you, you, my only dream. I did not guess that in reality I was as far from your mind now, when only the thin, bright glass pane stood between you and my radiant gaze, as if valleys, mountains and rivers separated us. I merely looked up and up; there was light there, here was the building, and there were you, the whole world to me. I had dreamt of this hour for two years, and now I was granted it. I stood outside your windows all that long, mild, cloudy evening, until the light in them went out.
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27. After all, I knew about your succession of women visitors from my childhood days, but now it hurt me physically, and I was torn between hostility and desire in the face of your obvious intimacy with someone else.
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28. How can I describe to you, beloved, the disappointment of that moment？ That was the first time I suffered it, the disappointment of going unrecognized by you. I have lived with it all my life, I am dying with it, and still you do not recognize me.
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29. I had dreamt, if I may so put it, of everything; in dark moments I had pictured you rejecting me, despising me for being too uninteresting, too ugly, too importunate. In passionate visions I had gone through all forms of your disfavour, your coldness, your indifference—but in no moment of dark emotion, not even in full awareness of my inferiority, had I ventured to envisage this, the worst thing of all: the fact that you had never even noticed my existence.
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30. I could not yet grasp your forgetfulness, because somehow my immoderate, constant concern with you had made me feel—although it was a delusion—that you, too, must often think of me, you would be waiting for me; how could I have gone on breathing in the certainty that I was nothing to you, no memory of me ever touched you, however lightly？
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31. two days later, we met again, your eyes rested on me with a certain familiarity, you still did not recognize me as the girl who loved you and whom you had woken to life, but only as the pretty eighteen-year-old who had met you in the same place two days earlier.
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32. All my childhood, all my passion were here in those few metres of space; this was my whole life, and now it came over me like a storm, everything, everything was coming true, and I was with you, going into your, into our apartment building. Think of it—it sounds banal, but I can’t put it any other way—as if going only as far as your door had been my reality all my life, my sombre everyday world, but beyond it a child’s magic realm began, the realm of Aladdin, remember that I had stared a thousand times, with burning eyes, at the door through which I now stepped, almost reeling, and you will guess—but only guess, you can never entirely know, beloved!—what that tumultuous minute meant in my life.
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33. will only thank you for the richness of that night, sparkling with desire, hovering in bliss. When I opened my eyes in the dark and felt you at my side, I was surprised not to see the stars above me, I could feel heaven so close—no,
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34. When I was dressed and stood in front of you, you took me in your arms and gave me a long look; was some dark and distant memory stirring in you, or did I merely seem to you beautiful, happy as indeed I was？
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35. I am not blaming you, I love you as the man you are, hot-blooded and forgetful, ardent and inconstant, I love you just as you always were and as you still are.
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36. You would have suspected me, a shadow would have remained, a fugitive, tentative shadow of distrust between us. I didn’t want that. And then I know you; I know you rather better than you know yourself. I know that it would have been difficult for you, who love the carefree, light-hearted, playful aspect of love, suddenly to be a father, suddenly responsible for someone else’s life. You can breathe only at liberty; you would have felt bound to me in some way. You would have hated me for that—I know that you would have done so, against your own conscious will. Perhaps only for hours, perhaps only for fleeting minutes I would have been a burden to you, a hated burden—but in my pride I wanted you to think of me all your life without any anxiety. I preferred to take it all on myself rather than burden you, I
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37. But your kindness is so strange, it is open to all to take as much of it as they can hold, it is great, infinitely great, your kindness, but it is—forgive me—it is passive. It wants to be appealed to, to be taken. You help when you are called upon to help, when you are asked for help, you help out of shame, out of weakness, and not out of joy.
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38. Everyone to whom I gave myself grew fond of me, they all thanked me and felt attached to me, they all loved me—except for you, except for you, my beloved!
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39. Oh, I was entirely aware of the vile, shameful ingratitude of my conduct to an honest friend; I felt that I was being ridiculous, and mortally injuring a kind man for ever in my madness—but what was friendship to me, what was my whole life compared with my impatience to feel the touch of your lips again, to hear you speak softly close to me？ I loved you so much, and now that it is all over and done with I can tell you so. And I believe that if you summoned me from my deathbed I would suddenly find the strength in myself to get up and go with you.
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40. “People come back again.”
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41. But who are you to me, who are you who never, never recognizes me, who passes me by as if I were no more than a stretch of water, stumbling upon me as if I were a stone, you who always goes away, forever leaving me to wait？
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42. I love you, I love you… goodbye.
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43. He shivered; he felt as if a door had suddenly and invisibly sprung open, and cold air from another world was streaming into his peaceful room. He sensed the presence of death, he sensed the presence of undying love: something broke open inside him, and he thought of the invisible woman, incorporeal and passionate, as one might think of distant music.
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