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What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that he

What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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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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