To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be... - Simone Weil

"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly."

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."

"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly."

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."