Mar 24, 2025
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‘Through you I have known the incomparable ecstasy of sacrifice, the marvelous sweetness of renunciation. I have loved you with a holy love, as others love their Madonna. Truly, the monk and nuns who give up the world in their divine fervor cannot have known the mystic ecstasy of my abandoning everything to follow you. You are the Unforgettable, Vally. You may drive me from your presence, you may exile me from your cruel grace, but you can never erase the priceless memory of which I have made a shield against the mischances of life. For no one can efface the deep-burned brand of a first love.’
— Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me, 1904, translated by Jeannette H. Foster