To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
Simone Weil
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- To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
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- Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
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