To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuito…

Simone Weil
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge, p.43, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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