Rarest And Purest

L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

-- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), French social and religious philosopher, 13 April 1942 letter to poet Joë Bousquet, published in their collected correspondence (Correspondance [Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1982], p. 18)