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Crime Quotes by Simone Weil
- Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
- At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in…
- There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
- The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
- Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and…
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