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| 23834 | Friendship is partly universal - the love of a person is like the ideal of loving everyone |
| Full Idea: Friendship has something universal about it. It consists in loving a human being as we should like to be able to love each soul in particular of all those who go to make up the human race. | |||
| From: Simone Weil (Friendship [1940], p.288) | |||
| A reaction: Hm. Would you like your lover to dream of loving the human race, rather than just loving you? Perhaps only a Christian could see friendship in this way? |