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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. – Simone Weil

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

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power
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil

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best
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. – Simone Weil

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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. – Arthur Christopher Benson

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer

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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. – Goethe

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Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Im not denyin the women are foolish. God Almighty made em to match the men. – George Eliot

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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. – Dean Inge

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