“These women are, quite simply, alive; they know
that the source of true values is not in external things but in human
hearts. This gives its charm to the world they live in: they banish
ennui by the simple fact of their presence, with their dreams, their
desires, their pleasures, their emotions, their ingenuities. The
sanseverina, that 'active soul' dreads ennui more than death. To
stagnate in ennui 'is to keep from dying, she said, not to live'; she is
' always impassioned over something, always in action and gay too '.
Thoughtless, childish or profound, gay or grave, daring or secretive,
they all reject the heavy sleep in which humanity is mired. And these
women who have been able to maintain their liberty- empty as it has
been- will rise through passion to heroism once they find an objective
worthy of them; their spiritual power, their energy, suggest the fierce
purity of total dedication” Simone de Beauvoir.
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