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We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. - Simone Weil

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil

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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. – Simone Weil

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide

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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand

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