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I love you madly
A gorgeous little book about love: the total abandonment, the total craziness, the total blindness and absolute glory of it all. And you know exactly who'll adore this gift!
80 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2005
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October 4, 2016
This is certainly a gorgeous little book with simple but pertinent and attractive illustrations. The thoughts expressed, not surprisingly, are about love, the craziness of it (crazy?), the blindness of it (on occasions), the total abandonment of it but overall the absolute glory of it all.
I can understand what French actress Juliette Drouet, who was apparently his mistress, wrote to her paramour Victor Hugo when she stated, 'I enjoy nothing without you. You are the prism through which the sunshine, the green landscape and life itself, appear to me ... I need your kisses upon my lips, your love in my soul.' Very poetic but oh, so true with one's greatest love. The accompanying illustration is, appropriately, two hearts entwined.
Staying with the French connection, Paul Verlaine said, 'Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches. And here is my heart which beats only for you.' very appropriate to display your heart to a true love ... but it still has to beat when that love has gone. And Gustave Flaubert wrote to Louise Coley stating, 'Your heart is an inexhaustible spring, you let me drink deep, it floods me, penetrates me, I drown.' I see his point but a sad ending all the same!
We just can't seem to get away from the romantic French for Sarah Bernhardt is quoted with 'Your words are as necessary to me as the sunlight and air ... Your words are my food, your breath my wine - you are everything to me.' And on a similar theme Basia, presumably Barbara Trzetrzelewska the Polish singer-songwriter, offers 'You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life would not be the same. Please never go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.' Yes, I would agree but do not take me straight away in extreme instances but certainly wait elsewhere so that we may meet again in due course.
Probably my favourite quotation in the book comes from the unlikely pen of George Bernard Shaw when he was writing to Ellen Terry. He wrote, 'I love you soulfully and bodyfully [Shaw always had his own words!], properly and improperly, every way that a woman can be loved.' I do love those ways of being loved and the supporting illustration is fun as it depicts a man carrying a billboard that states 'improper thoughts ...' - lovely!!
It is a gorgeous book that would make a lovely present for a loved one to read, enjoy and realise that he/she was fully appreciated, particularly when reading Stuart and Linda Macfarlane's 'You make me glad to be alive.' Such people are indeed special.
I can understand what French actress Juliette Drouet, who was apparently his mistress, wrote to her paramour Victor Hugo when she stated, 'I enjoy nothing without you. You are the prism through which the sunshine, the green landscape and life itself, appear to me ... I need your kisses upon my lips, your love in my soul.' Very poetic but oh, so true with one's greatest love. The accompanying illustration is, appropriately, two hearts entwined.
Staying with the French connection, Paul Verlaine said, 'Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches. And here is my heart which beats only for you.' very appropriate to display your heart to a true love ... but it still has to beat when that love has gone. And Gustave Flaubert wrote to Louise Coley stating, 'Your heart is an inexhaustible spring, you let me drink deep, it floods me, penetrates me, I drown.' I see his point but a sad ending all the same!
We just can't seem to get away from the romantic French for Sarah Bernhardt is quoted with 'Your words are as necessary to me as the sunlight and air ... Your words are my food, your breath my wine - you are everything to me.' And on a similar theme Basia, presumably Barbara Trzetrzelewska the Polish singer-songwriter, offers 'You are everything I need. You are the sun, the air I breathe. Without you, life would not be the same. Please never go away. And if you go, then don't forget to take me with you.' Yes, I would agree but do not take me straight away in extreme instances but certainly wait elsewhere so that we may meet again in due course.
Probably my favourite quotation in the book comes from the unlikely pen of George Bernard Shaw when he was writing to Ellen Terry. He wrote, 'I love you soulfully and bodyfully [Shaw always had his own words!], properly and improperly, every way that a woman can be loved.' I do love those ways of being loved and the supporting illustration is fun as it depicts a man carrying a billboard that states 'improper thoughts ...' - lovely!!
It is a gorgeous book that would make a lovely present for a loved one to read, enjoy and realise that he/she was fully appreciated, particularly when reading Stuart and Linda Macfarlane's 'You make me glad to be alive.' Such people are indeed special.
October 13, 2012
"Our love is no ordinary love, it has a history that spans a million years..it has a future that has no end. it has strength and wisdom..it is supporting and understanding..it is growing and learning . Our love is not bound by time, or space or mortal failings."
March 12, 2012
when there are too much love, the love reduces.
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