love is to die for love" (Evans 81).
Anne and Robert, on the other hand, do not have anything like the passion once experienced by Henri and Paula (a passion which is dying and taking the relationship down with it), but they do have the common ground of friendship and a devotion to political and social reform. De Beauvoir depicts this difference through the eyes of the artist Henri:
Eighteen or eighty, [Robert], with his huge, laughing eyes that consumed everything in sight, would always look just as young. What a zealot! By comparison, Henri was often tempted to think of himself as dissipated, lazy, weak (de Beauvoir 17).
This insight demonstrates the significance of political and socia
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