Letter to Abelard from his mistress Heloise (stumbled upon in Diane Ackerman's The History of Love)
"... Observe, I beseech you, to what a wretched condition you have reduced me; sad, afflicted, without any possible comfort, unless it proceed from you.... I have your picture in my room. I never pass by it without stopping to look at it; and yet when you were present...
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