Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a cert…

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Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food. ✨ Simone Weil (2009). Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals), p.78, Routledge
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