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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. - Simon

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. – 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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History
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil

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great
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. – Simone Weil

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respect
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. – Henry David Thoreau

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. – Oscar Wilde

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Purity

Purity of heart is to will one thing. – Soren Kierkegaard

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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Wise Words

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. – Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Knowledge

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what Ive written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. – Joyce Maynard

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Fear

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. – George Bernard Shaw

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