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Real Quotes by Simone Weil
- The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
- The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical…
- The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only…
- Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to…
- Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
- Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
- 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…
- Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials,…
- Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
- There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,…
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