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" I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience to your will, kept nothing for myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. And so, in the name of God to whom you have dedicated yourself I beg you to restore your presence to me in... "
Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography
by James Burge - 2003 - 319 pages
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Medieval Women Writers

Katharina M. Wilson - Literary Collections - 1984 - 401 pages
...many were uncertain whether I was prompted by love or lust; but now the end is proof of the beginning. I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience...myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. Consider then your injustice, if when 1 deserve more you give me less, or rather, nothing at all, especially...
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Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions

Linda S. Kauffman - Desire in literature - 1988 - 340 pages
...Abelard describes his love for her). As evidence, she proclaims that "the end is proof of the beginning. I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience...myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours" (117). The more Heloise renounces, the more she belongs to Abelard. The paradox is that, contrary to...
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Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C ...

Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, Jean F. O'Barr - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 566 pages
...many were uncertain whether I was prompted by love or lust; but now the end is proof of the beginning. I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience...myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. Consider then your injustice, if when I desire more you give me less, or rather, nothing at all, especially...
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Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C ...

Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, Jean F. O'Barr - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 566 pages
...many were uncertain whether I was prompted by love or lust; but now the end is proof of the beginning. I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience...myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. Consider then your injustice, if when I desire more you give me less, or rather, nothing at all, especially...
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The Neglected Canon: Nine Women Philosophers: First to the Twentieth Century

Therese Boos Dykeman - Women philosophers - 1999 - 392 pages
...now the end is proof of the beginning. I have fmally denied myself every pleasure in obedience to you will, kept nothing for myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. Consider then your injustice, if when I deserve more you give me less, or rather, nothing at all, especially...
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The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt

Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - Philosophy - 2003 - 544 pages
...it is, the more I have made you feel secure in me, the more I have to bear with your neglect. I have denied myself every pleasure in obedience to your...myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. Consider then your injustice, if when I deserve more you give me less, or rather, nothing at all, especially...
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The Cambridge Companion to Abelard

Jeffrey E. Brower, Kevin Guilfoy - Philosophy - 2004 - 386 pages
...absolute loyalty and all that she has done at his bidding, he has never directed a word of comfort to her: I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience...myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. Consider then your injustice, if when I deserve more you give me less, or rather, nothing at all, especially...
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Medieval Religion: New Approaches

Constance H. Berman - Church history - 2005 - 458 pages
...accordance with his wishes and that had marked the beginnings of their troubles. 56 In short, she tells him, "I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience...except to prove that now, even more, I am yours." 57 Surely his debt to her was clear. Yet as much as her words have haunted modern readers, Abelard...
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Medieval Religion: New Approaches

Constance H. Berman - Church history - 2005 - 452 pages
...accordance with his wishes and that had marked the beginnings of their troubles. 56 In short, she tells him, "I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience...except to prove that now, even more, I am yours." 57 Surely his debt to her was clear. Yet as much as her words have haunted modern readers, Abelard...
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The Book of Love: A Treasury Inspired By The Greatest of Virtues

Andrew M. Greeley, Mary G. Durkin - Literary Collections - 2005 - 522 pages
...many were uncertain whether I was prompted by love or lust; but no the end is proof of the beginning. I have finally denied myself every pleasure in obedience to your will, kept nothing of myself except to prove that now, even more, I am yours. And so, in the name of God to whom you have...
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