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Than Quotes by Simone Weil
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
- Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
- Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.
- There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
- Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
- Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
- 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 in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a…
- When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,…
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