Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil in Gravity and Grace (1947)
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

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