I'm so eager to see you again

I'm so eager to see you again, but I wouldn't ask to see you.
Not because I'm proud. In fact, in front of you, I cede all my pride.
Yet only if you asked to see me, our meeting would be meaningful to me.
－－1950, Simone de Beauvoir, Lettres à Nelson Algren

我渴望能見你一面，
但請你記得，我不會開口要求要見你。
這不是因為驕傲，你知道我在你面前毫無驕傲可言。
而是因為，唯有你也想見我的時候，我們見面才有意義。
－－西蒙波娃（1950）