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Simone Weil

"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."

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"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
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"A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves."
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
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"We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful."
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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."
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"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice."
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