Jul 15, 2022
“The joy of meeting and the sorrow of separation … we should welcome these gifts … with our whole soul, and experience to the full, and with the same gratitude, all the sweetness or bitterness as the case may be. Meeting and separation are two forms of friendship that contain the same good, in the one case through pleasure and in the other through sorrow … Soon there will be distance between us. Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated.”
— Simone Weil in a letter to her friend Gustave Thibone, quoted in Thibone’s Simone Weil As We Knew Her (Routledge, 2003)
