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Quote by Anatole France
English (Source)
To want a woman in the full splendor of her beauty and spirit, a woman who possesses herself, who is self-aware and daring, and who is made even more beautiful and desirable by this, who freely, voluntarily, and superiorly decides her fate; to desire this woman, to love her as she is, and yet to suffer because she has neither the childlike single-mindedness nor the pale innocence, which, if she had, would displease her; to wish him to be who he is, and at the same time not to be who he is; to adore her as life has made her, and to grieve bitterly that the life which fashioned her beauty has anything to do with her, oh, that is an impossible state.