

I like it because it’s true and I like to read it over and over again and go, “ Yeah…“.

It is even more difficult to explain one’s life.”

What I would ask of you (the only thing I can still ask of you) is not to skip over any of these lines which have cost me so much. I should like to make here an effort not only of sincerity but also of precision: hence, these pages will contain many erasures they do already. A letter, even the longest, is obliged to simplify what should not have been simplified: one is always so much less clear the minute one tried to be complete. Yet I ought to know that only music permits such a succession of chords. A lexception d’Alexis ou le traité du vain combat notre étude se présente dans un ordre chronologique afin de dégager une. Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Dans ces romans Marguerite Yourcenar y aborde le concept Eros - Thanatos chaque fois de manière différente il est donc nécessaire danalyser successivement ces variantes. Then too, I do not know how to go about it. I have often read that words falsify thought, but it seems to me that written words falsify it even more: you know how little is left of a text after two successive translations. “ This letter, my dear, will be very long.
