I’m so eager to see you again, but I wouldn’t ask to see you. Not because I’m proud. In fact, in front of you, I cede all my pride. Yet only if you asked to see me, our meeting would be meaningful to me.
Simone de Beauvoir, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
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