A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
- Simone Weil
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- Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
- We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
- Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who...
- There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
- Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person...
- Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a...
- If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when...
- A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
- There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
- The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state,...
- The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has...
- Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the...
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