“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
From an April 13, 1942 letter to poet Joë Bousquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%AB_Bousquet, published in their collected correspondence (Correspondance [Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1982], p. 18).
Original: L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. https://books.google.com/books?id=BxpMAAAAMAAJ&q=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&dq=%22L%E2%80%99attention+est+la+forme+la+plus+rare+et+la+plus+pure+de+la+g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rosit%C3%A9%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD6K24mfvLAhUGax4KHW4HAjkQ6AEIPjAF
