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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

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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, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

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In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#brush #canvas #palette #producing #recording

People have known of Shakespeare's homosexuality down through the ages. ↗

— George Weinberg

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The world is on a bumpy journey to a new destination and the New Normal. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

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