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 WeilThe virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
Simone WeilIt is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.
Simone Weil