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Firsts Quotes by Simone Weil
- It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one…
- Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the…
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