The Greatest LoveBy Rahel Varnhagen(From “Life and Letters of Rahel Varnhagen.”)
By Rahel Varnhagen
(From “Life and Letters of Rahel Varnhagen.”)
Only one in the whole world recognizes my claim to the personality, and does not wish merely to use and swallow up some part or other of me; loves me as nature created me, and fate distorted me; understandsthis fate; is willing to leave me the remainder of my life, and to gladden it and draw it nearer to heaven; and, for the happiness of being my friend, will be, do, and leave all for me. This is the man who is called my bridegroom.