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- Richard Feynman schrieb seiner verstorbenen Frau Arlene einen Liebesbrief, der ihn zu Tränen rührte.
- Er beschreibt, wie tief seine Liebe blieb, obwohl seine Frau schon fast zwei Jahre tot war.
- Er erklärt, warum er sich seit ihrem Tod auf keine neue Beziehung eingelassen hat.
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0:00Have you ever read Richard Feynman's love letter to his wife? >> Uh no, I read the pleasure [music] finding things out. >> Not be able to say this without crying, which is going to be very embarrassing, but I'm going to try. >> [snorts] >> October [music] 17th, 1946. To Arlene, I adore [music] you, sweetheart. I know how much you like to hear it, but I don't only write [music] it because you like it. I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write you.
0:27It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you, almost 2 years, but I know you'll excuse me because you understand how [music] I am stubborn and realistic, and I thought there was no sense to writing. But now I know, my darling wife, that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. >> [music] >> I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I will always love you. I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead, but I still want to comfort and take [music] care of you, and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems [music] to discuss with you. I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until now
1:06>> [music] >> that we can do that. What should we do? We started to learn to make clothes together, or learn Chinese, [music] or get a movie projector. Can't I do something now? No. I am alone without you. And you were the idea [music] woman and general instigator of all our wild adventures. When [music] you were sick, you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed.
1:32You needn't [music] have worried, just as I told you then, there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways, so much. And now, it is clearly even [music] more true. You can give me nothing, yet I love you so [music] that you stand in my way of loving anyone else, but I want you to stand there. You, >> [music] >> dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.
1:57I know you'll will assure me that I'm [music] foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don't want to be in my way. >> [music] >> I'll bet you are surprised that I don't even have a girlfriend except you, sweetheart, after 2 years. >> [music] >> But you can't help it, darling. Nor can I. I don't understand it, for I've met many girls and very nice ones, and I don't want to remain alone.
2:21But in two or three meetings, they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real. My darling wife, I do adore you. I love my wife. My wife [music] is dead.