To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil
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- We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
- Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
- Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.