" I love you enormously. I’m spending a little time away from you—quite absurd and contingent. I would so like to see you, my stubborn little thing, and tell you my stories and hold your hand. You are my love, you good little being. Far from you I measure the nothingness of the flesh, and I am not having much fun. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre , Witness to My Life: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir 1926-39