"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."

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Source : Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

Simone Weil

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“What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.”

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“Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.”
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.”
“You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.”

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“Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.”
“If my heart were not light, I would die.”
“I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.”

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