“He had not applauded, he had remained seated, but he had looked at her steadily. From the depths of eternity he had looked at her and Rosalind became immortal. If I could believe him, she thought, if only I could believe him!”

—  Simone de Beauvoir

Source: All Men are Mortal (1946), P. 30

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