 To her, "wirkliche Menschen" (real people) were "pariahs", not in the sense of outcasts, but in the sense of outsiders, unassimilated, with the virtue of "social nonconformism ... the "sine qua non" of intellectual achievement", a sentiment she shared with Jaspers.Arendt always had a "beste Freundin".In her teens she had formed a lifelong relationship with her "Jugendfreundin", Anne Mendelssohn Weil ("Annchen").