Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century by Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger. Buy it for Richard Burton’s poetry and the many, many love letters he wrote to Elizabeth throughout their lives, all of which are so beautiful and melancholic and sensual and hilarious and heartbreaking. It is a study of two magnificent, pig-headed people whose love was just too bloody much, but it was constant, and could not be extinguished even by divorce, separation, or even death. He wrote........
"I have treated women, generally, very badly and used them as an exercise for my contempt except in your case. I have fought like a fool to treat you in the same way and failed. One of these days I will wake up – which I think I have done already – and realize to myself that I really do love. I find it very difficult to allow my whole life to rest on the existence of another creature. I find it equally difficult, because of my innate arrogance, to believe in the idea of love. There is no such thing, I say to myself. There is lust, of course, and usage, and jealousy, and desire and spent powers, but no such thing as the idiocy of love. Who invented that concept? I have wracked my shabby brains and can find no answer.”
Taken from: http://zoroetarrive.tumblr.com/post/4168582683/the-belligerence-that-has-developed-between-us-is
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