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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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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. – Simone Weil

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Beauty
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. – Simone Weil

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respect
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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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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other peoples weaknesses. – William Hazlitt

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. – Constantin Stanislavski

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Art is not a thing; it is a way. – Elbert Hubbard

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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. – Clive Bell

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The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Conservatism should guide; it usually paralyzes. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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