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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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The only way into truth is through ones own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. – Simone Weil

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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. – Andy Warhol

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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. – Epicurus

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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. – Ansel Adams

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The term the American Left is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isnt really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. – Christopher Hitchens

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I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional. – Jon Carroll

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