Quote by Simone Weil
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he doe

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil

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

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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. – Simone Weil

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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. – Harold Evans

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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. – Soren Kierkegaard

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. – Aldous Huxley

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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