Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your sol…

Simone Weil
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Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it. ✨ Simone Weil (2002). Gravity and Grace, p.67, Psychology Press
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