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Quote by Simone Weil
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are foun

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. – Simone Weil

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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. – Simone Weil

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Murder
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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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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil

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power
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Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy. – Sigmund Freud

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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Dreams

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level. – Vicente Fox

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Dreams

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Dreams

Random Quotes

Weve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live. – Omar Bradley

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Peace

Food-addiction, or food-drunkenness, is an old story in Hygienic literature. This is the first mention I have seen of it in “regular” medical literature. I fear to hope that its recognition spells progress. – Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. – John le Carre

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Most of us do not consciously look at movies. – Roger Ebert

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movies