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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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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil

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Truth
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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Society
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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. – William Morris

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. – Ann Landers

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The miracle isnt that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. – John Bingham

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Maybe you dont like your job, maybe you didnt get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, theres no escape, theres no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. – Ani DiFranco

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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. – James Boswell

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