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“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.”

Simone Weil · Beauty

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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.

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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.

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

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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

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