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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Simone Weil
These are some quotes by French author Simone Weil Philosopher, who lived between February 3, 1909 and August 24, 1943.
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