Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Ernest Hemingway featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
-Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
“I love you, I admire you, I desire you, and I will wait for you all my life with the same calm and passionate love.”
Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, January 6, 1950