"You say I feel what is genuine and what is not, and I am very proud of your saying so. I think I..."

“You say I feel what is genuine and what is not, and I am very proud of your saying so. I think I felt at once how genuine you were yourself, and it was the beginning of my liking you so much, and afterwards of my love for you. All is genuine in you, words and behaviours, love and hate, pleasure, pain; your whole life is genuine. And living with you I felt genuine myself; everything was all fight because everything was true.”

- Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren


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