Honore de Balzac - 1833 Love Letter

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Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac, French writer, in Tours Paris on May 20, 1799 and rose to the middle class society. By 1822 Balzac had produced several novels under pseudonyms, but was not recognized as a writer until 1833 after writing historical work in the manner of Sir Walter Scott and combining writings of the mystics and linking the ideas together in his old novels. Balzac continued to write and produced books that contained thinly veiled elements of his love affairs. Eventually he "...married the only woman I have ever loved", Madame Hanska, he wrote in a letter to his friend. This letter is written to Madame Evelinea Hanska, a Polish countess and his wife.

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October 6, 1833

Our love will bloom always fairer, fresher, more gracious, because it is a true love, and because genuine love is ever increasing.

It is a beautiful plant growing from year to year in the heart, ever extending its palms and branches, doubling every season its glorious clusters and perfumes; and, my dear life, tell me, repeat to me always, that nothing will bruise its bark or its delicate leaves, that it will grow larger in both our hearts, loved, free, watched over, like a life within our life...

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