Romantic Love Letter by Alfred de Musset, to Amantine Aurore Dudevant

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written September 1, 1834

But do you know what it is to wait five months for a kiss? Do you know what a poor heart endures, that for five months has felt, day by day, hour by hour, life abandon it, the cold of the tomb descend lowly in the solitude, death and oblivion falling drop by drop like snow?

Do you know what it feels like for a heart that has almost ceased to beat, to dilate for a moment, to re-open like a poor dying flower, to drink again a drop of heaven-sent dew?

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Alfred de Musset, French writer, to his lover and fellow-writer Amantine Aurore Dudevant

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