Quote by Simone Weil
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a grat

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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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil

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power
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. – Simone Weil

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God
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

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Art

Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. – Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

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Art

Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and thats it. No America, no jazz. Ive seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesnt have a damn thing to do with Africa. – Art Blakey

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving

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No one every listened themselves out of a job. – Calvin Coolidge

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Death ends a life, not a relationship. – Jack Lemon

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Death

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. – Ayrton Senna

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