The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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• Simone Weil:

  To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

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  Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

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  One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

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  To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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

• Simone Weil:

  Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

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  The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.