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" There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. "
Simone Weil
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" What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. "
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" The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. "
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" Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. "
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" Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. "
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" Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. "
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" The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. "
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" The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. "
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" We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. "
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" In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. "
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" To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. "
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" It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. "
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" There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. "
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" To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. "
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" Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. "
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" Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. "
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" There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. "
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" Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. "
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" To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. "
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" A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. "
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" Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. "
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" A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. "
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" The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. "
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" To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. "
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" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "
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" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "
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" In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. "
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" Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. "
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" The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. "
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" The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. "
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